More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
