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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
Words without experience are meaningless.
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.
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.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
