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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Words without experience are meaningless.
The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
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.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.