"The pages are still blank, but there is……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov has 269 quotes on this site.
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times…
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I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
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The tiny madman in his padded cell.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and…
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it…
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of…
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
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There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains…
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Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice,…
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Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each…
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To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
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God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary…
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other…
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[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a…
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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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