“Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin? — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But even during this sleep—still, still—his real life showed through too much.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Certainly it’s all in bloom, certainly we’ll go. For aren’t you and I gods? . . . I sense in my blood… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“For life has worn me down: continual uneasiness, concealment of my knowledge, pretense, fear, a painful straining of all my nerves—not to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If only it were possible to juicily belch up the life one's lived, chew it anew and gulp it down, and then… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The answer to all questions of life and death, "the absolute solution" was written all over the world he had known: it… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“He must be always on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“As happens in dreams, when a perfectly harmless object inspires us with fear and thereafter is frightening every time we dream of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ganin now tried to recapture that scent again, mixed with the fresh smells of the autumnal park, but, as we know, memory… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“and finally there was the sleepless night when i decided to explore and fight the foul, the inadmissible abyss, devoting all my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In harmony there is nothing strange. And life is a vast harmony. I've understood this. But, you see- the moulded whimsy of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
![“As happens in dreams, when a perfectly harmless object inspires us with fear and thereafter is frightening every time we dream of it (and even in real life retains disquieting overtones), so Dreyer's presence became for Franz a refined torture, an implacable menace. [ ... H]e could not help…” quote by Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/197/vladimir-nabokov-198_dreams_as-happens-in-dreams-when-a-perfectly-ha_2397762.jpg)
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