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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
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.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
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.