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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
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.
