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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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.
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.