More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
