More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
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.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
We think not in words but in shadows of words.
