QUOTES by Vladimir Nabokov
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How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!
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To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
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Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.
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What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
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My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?
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...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
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…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
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Do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
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There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.
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I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.
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Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane...
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
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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.
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Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
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I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
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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.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
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Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.
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A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.
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Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.
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Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
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A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
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