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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
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.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Words without experience are meaningless.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
