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Heart Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the…
- A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there…
- Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now…
- Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the…
- He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.
- 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…
- 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…
- My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown…
- Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my…
- She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with…
- My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.
- In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin