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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
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.
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.