| "Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them."
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| "Solitude is the playfield of Satan." Vladimir Nabokov |
| A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Vladimir Nabokov |
| A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Vladimir Nabokov Quotations |
| A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov |
| abruptly provided a retroactive clarification of certain oddities of behavior on his part. Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
| And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion. Vladimir Nabokov |
| Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. Vladimir Nabokov |
| Genius is an African who dreams up snow Vladimir Nabokov Popular Quotes |
| I confess, I do not believe in time. Vladimir Nabokov |
| I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth. Vladimir Nabokov Popular Quotes |
| I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is Vladimir Nabokov Remarks |
| Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. Vladimir Nabokov |
| My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov |
| Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words Vladimir Nabokov Remarks |
| Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both Rooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky—who is doomed to accept it over and over again through an infinity of textbooks, with a question mark for monument. Vladimir Nabokov |
| She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov |
| Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. Vladimir Nabokov Remarks |
| Solitude is the play field of Satan Vladimir Nabokov |
| The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. Vladimir Nabokov |
| The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov Quotations |
| There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion. Vladimir Nabokov Adages |
| There is only one school of literature -- that of talent. Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
| To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute Vladimir Nabokov Sayings |
| Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known Vladimir Nabokov |
