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Top 500 Vladimir Nabokov Quotes (2024 Update)

Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “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 Quote: “Caress the detail, the divine detail.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Don’t touch me; I’ll die if you touch me.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “And yet I adore him. I think he’s quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The lost glove is happy.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “In reading, one should notice and fondle details.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “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.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I have rewritten – often several times – every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Life is a message scribbled in the dark.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise – a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames – but still a paradise.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Dear Jesus, do something.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “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 Quote: “All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I don’t think in any language. I think in images.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .”
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