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Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “A red backless slipper slowly slid off her foot... and Franz, bending down after it, plunged softly into dark slumber.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “With a heavy heart I left the house and walked through the spotted blaze of the sun to my car. Two other cars were parked on both sides of it, and I had some trouble squeezing out.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The strange mirage-shimmer standing in for death should not appear too soon in the chronicle and yet it should permeate the first amorous scenes.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “In those years, that marvelous mess of constellations, nebulae, interstellar gaps and all the rest of the awesome show provoked in me an indescribable sense of nausea, of utter panic, as if I were hanging from earth upside down on the brink of infinite space, with terrestrial gravity still holding me by the heels but about to release me any moment.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Now the colored pencils in more detail.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Lighted advertisements went running up dark red facades and dissipating again. He would pass girls; he would turn to look; but the prettier the face, the harder it was to take the plunge.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Knight seemed to him to be constantly playing some game of his own invention, without telling his partners its rules.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “What further concentration is needed, what added intensity must one’s gaze attain, for the brain to enslave the visual image of a person?”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I was always lonely and I am lonely still.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “One of the functions of all my novels is to prove that the novel in general does not exist.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop?”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “To the sound of this voice, to the music of the chessboard’s evil lure, Luzhin recalled, with the exquisite, moist melancholy peculiar to recollections of love, a thousand games that he had played in the past... There were combinations, pure and harmonious, where thought ascended marble stairs to victory; there were tender stirrings in one corner of the board, and a passionate explosion, and the fanfare of the Queen going to its sacrificial doom.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The elms and the poplars were turning their ruffled backs to a sudden onslaught of wind, and a black thunderhead loomed above Ramsdale’s white church tower when I looked around me for the last time.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature’s reality – the deception was bearable.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “He began with the day’s copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I put everything into my poetry that I should have put into my life, and now it’s too late for me to start all over again. The only thought that occurs to me at the moment is that in the final reckoning it’s better to have been sanguine by temperament, a man of action, and if you must get drunk do it properly and smash the place up.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The worst madman is the one who fails to consider the possibility of somebody else being mad too.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Memory overshadows the present and dims the future “into something thicker than its usual pea soup.””
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would – invariably, with icy precision – plump for the former.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it’s surprise would erase all sunrays.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “But then what should I have done with you, Nina, how should I have disposed of the store of sadness that had gradually accumulated as a result of our seemingly carefree, but really hopeless meetings?”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “An author’s fondest dream is to turn the reader into a spectator; is this ever attained?”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Ah, gentle drivers gliding through summer’s black nights, what frolics, what twists of lust, you might see from your impeccable highways if Kumfy Kabins were suddenly drained of their pigments and became as transparent as boxes of glass!”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “No wonder tobacco shops have a predilection for corners, for.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Van was positive that not once during a month of love-making had he failed to take all necessary precautions, sometimes rather bizarre, but incontestably trustworthy, and had lately acquired a sheath-like contraceptive device that in Ladore county only barbershops, for some odd but ancient reason, were allowed to sell.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The heating system was a farce, depending as it did on registers in the floor wherefrom the tepid exhalations of a throbbing and groaning basement furnace were transmitted to the rooms with the faintness of a moribund’s last breath.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I think it is all a matter of love...”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “With the ebb of lust, an ashen sense of awfulness, abetted by the realistic drabness of a grey neuralgic day, crept over me and hummed within my temples.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Palm trees are all right only in mirages.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Let me add, just in case, that experts on literary “schools” should wisely refrain this time from casually dragging in “the influence of German Impressionists”: I do not know German and have never read the Impressionists – whoever they are.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I gave her to hold in her awkward fist the scepter of my passion.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Let us not look for the soul of Russia in the Russian novel: let us look for the individual genius. Look at the masterpiece, and not at the frame – and not at the faces of other people looking at the frame.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Dimly, I recall running up to his chair to show him a pretty pebble, which he slowly examined and then slowly put into his mouth.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “For some reason, I kept seeing it – it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina – a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, “pinging” pebbles at an empty can.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “What stopped me was the awful feeling that if I meddled with fate in any way and tried to rationalize her fantastic gift, that gift would be snatched away like that palace on the mountain top in the Oriental tale which vanished whenever a prospective owner asked its custodian how come a strip of sunset sky was clearly visible from afar between black rock and foundation.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “All the trees in the world are journeying somewhere. Perpetual pilgrimage.”
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