Two Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

— Vladimir Nabokov

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside…

— Vladimir Nabokov

...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon…

— Vladimir Nabokov

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your…

— Vladimir Nabokov

To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We…

— Vladimir Nabokov

- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a…

— Vladimir Nabokov