Dreams Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

17 Dreams quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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“I can only explain my behaviour then by the mechanism of that dream vacuum wherein revolves a deranged mind.”

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“Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.”

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I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to…

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Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality,…

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I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad…

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“Next morning, his nose still in the dreambag of a deep pillow contributed to his otherwise austere bed by sweet Blanche (with…

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“There can be no emblem or parable in a village idiot's hallucinations or in last night's dream of any of us in this hall. In those random visions nothing – underline nothing (grating sound of horizontal stroke can be construed as allowing itself to be deciphered y a witch doctor that can then cure a madman or give confort to…

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“I am not concerned with the moron, the ordinary hairless ape, who takes everything in his stride; his only childhood memory is…

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“It is desirable that the inmate should not have at all, or if he does, should immediately himself suppress nocturnal dreams whose content might be incompatible with the condition and status of the prisoner, such as: resplendent landscapes, outings with friends, family dinners, as well as sexual intercourse with persons who in real life and in the waking state would…

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“It was then that I sprang my surprise. Oh, what a dreamy pet! She walked up to the open suitcase as if…

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“But then I have long since grown accustomed to the thought that what we call dreams is semi-reality, the promise of reality,…

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“As happens in dreams, when a perfectly harmless object inspires us with fear and thereafter is frightening every time we dream of…

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“Golden haze, puffy bedquilt. Another awakening, but perhaps not yet the final one. This occurs not infrequently: You come to, and see yourself, say, sitting in an elegant second-class compartment with a couple of elegant strangers; actually, though, this is a false awakening, being merely the next layer of your dream, as if you were rising up from stratum to…

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“When that slow-motion, silent explosion of love takes place in me, unfolding its melting fringes and overwhelming me with the sense of…

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“Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear, bright selves. I am aware of them, without any astonishment, in surroundings they never visited during their earthly existence, in the house of some friend of mine they never knew. They sit apart, frowning at the floor, as if death were…

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