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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
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.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
