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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.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
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.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
Words without experience are meaningless.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
