More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
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.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
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.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
