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- A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
- To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
- There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
- It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the…
- I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of…
- Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its…
- Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a…
- She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.
- 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…
- All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might…
- And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.
- 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…
- No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I…
- Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods!…
- I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you…
- It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to…
- There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of…
- do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
- I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,…
- 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…
- There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!
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