More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
We think not in words but in shadows of words.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.