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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life’s full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
And yet I adore him. I think he’s quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
... in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Don’t cry, I’m sorry to have deceived you so much, but that’s how life is (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids? (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
... All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let’s even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)