More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
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.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
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.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
