More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
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.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.
