Best Vladimir Nabokov Lines
- What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. Consciousness
- He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even… Action
- Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names. Best
- The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. Character
- ...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust… Afterwards
- I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female… Any
- Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. Cry
- ...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… Absorbed
- in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.… All
- Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very… Car
- There is no science without fancy and no art without fact. Art
- I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane... Azure
- Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that… Apart
- To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Begin
- ...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)... Hot
- The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun.… Dissolves
- I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness. All
- Do those clowns really believe what they teach? Believe
- Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… Abandoned
- I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust Decay
- The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading Correspond
- There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity. Apparently
- And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would… Address
- His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle. Failing
- Nymphets do not occur in polar regions. Funny
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