More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
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.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
We think not in words but in shadows of words.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
