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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
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.
