More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
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.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.
