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Down Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning…
- I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
- 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…
- a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that…
- I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of…
- The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows…
- Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps…
- …my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton…
- After the dreadful frustrationsFreudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon Waltz a sublimation of the push-button…
- It all ended with the circuslikewhump of a monstrous box on the ear with which I knocked down the traitress who rolled up in a…
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