More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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.
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
I don't think in any language. I think in images.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.