More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Words without experience are meaningless.
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
...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.
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.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
