More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
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.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
