More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
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.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Words without experience are meaningless.
