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Long Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and…
- We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous…
- 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…
- Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We…
- Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and…
- There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and…
- Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
- I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything…
- A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under…
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