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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.
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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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.
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.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.