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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
World
Meaningless
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Reality
Play
World
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Book
Reading
Knowing
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Nature
Past
Smell
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Love
Memories
Thinking
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.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Thinking
Crowds
LifeIs
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Inspirational
Funny
Life
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Art
Imagination
Shadow
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Desire
World
Defiance
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Jobs
Writing
Character
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