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More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
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.
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.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
