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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.
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
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.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
