More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
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.
I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
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.
The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
