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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
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.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
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.
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.