More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.