“Any future is unknown – but sometimes it acquires a particular fogginess, as if some other force had come to the aid… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I often felt we lived in a lighted house of glass, and that any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our… — 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
“He was one of those persons whom one loves not because of some lustrous streak of talent (this retired businessman possessed none),… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I have journeyed back in thought --with thought hopelessly tapering off as I went-- to remote regions where I groped for some… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“This is reality, this is pure fact - this forest, this moss, your hand, the ladybird on my leg, this cannot be… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“All three of them stood for a moment gazing at the stars. ''And all these are worlds,'' said Hagen. ''Or else,'' said… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“How can I demonstrate [...] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The calendar says I had known him only a few months but there exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The crickets kept crepitating; from time to time there came a sweet whiff of burning juniper; and above the black alpestrine steppe,… — 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
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