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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
We think not in words but in shadows of words.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
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.
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.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
