More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
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.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
