QUOTES by Vladimir Nabokov
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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.
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Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
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Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!
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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.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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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.
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I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
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You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
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A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
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I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
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Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.
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I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
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Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
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And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.
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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
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We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
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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.
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I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible
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Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
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I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
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Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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