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Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It’s like passing around samples of sputum.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “As it happens with many people who do not trouble about religion in the ordinary trend of life, I hastily invented a soft, warm, tear-misty God, and whispered an informal prayer. Let me get there in time, let him hold out till I come, let him tell me his secret. Now it was all snow: the glass had grown a grey beard.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Listen – I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. 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. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The subject of teaching Shakespeare at college level having been introduced: “First of all, dismiss ideas, and social background, and train the freshman to shiver, to get drunk on the poetry of Hamlet or Lear, to read with his spine and not with his skull.” Kinbote: “You appreciate particularly the purple passages?” Shade: “Yes, my dear Charles, I roll upon them as a grateful mongrel on a spot of turf fouled by a Great Dane.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Sometimes, though, angels smoke-in their sleeves. But when the archangel goes by, they throw their cigarettes away: This is what falling stars are.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I’m walking out now into the soft light, the cooling him of evening, and I will love you tonight, and tomorrow, and still many more, so very many tomorrows.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “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.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child’s scrawl on the fence, and the crank’s message in the market place. Art is never simple.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one’s motives and intentions.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Let me repeat with quite force: I was, and still am, despite mes malheurs, an exceptionally handsome male; slow moving tall, with dark soft hair and a gloomy but all the more seductive cast of demeanour.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “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.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The weather this morning was so-so: dullish, but warm, a boiled-milk sky, with skin- but if you pushed it aside with a teaspoon, the sun was really nice, so I wore my white trousers.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I don’t belong to any club or group. I don’t fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “No free man needs a God; but was I free?”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one’s personal truth.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Oh, don’t cry, I’m so sorry I cheated so much, but that’s the way things are.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I tore apart the fantasies of Poe, And dealt with childhood memories of strange Nacreous gleams beyond the adults’ range.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I, on my part, was as naive as only a pervert can be.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle even though we must keep a little aloof, a little detached when reading.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “It did not matter, it did not matter. Destroy and forget! But a butterfly in the Park, an orchid in a shop window, would revive everything with a dazzling inward shock of despair... When he could not sleep, as now often happened... he would walk up and down the open terrace, under a haze of stars, in severely restricted meditation, till the first tramcar jangled and screeched in the dawning abyss of the city.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “There is an old American saying ‘He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest ‘warmth’ which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the moment of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I felt curiously aloof from my own self. No temptations maddened me. The plump, glossy little Eskimo girls with their fish smell, hideous raven hair and guinea pig faces, evoked even less desire in me than Dr. Johnson had.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Your silence was effortless and windless, like the silence of clouds or plants. All silence is the recognition of a mystery. There was much about you that seemed mysterious. A.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “The one who kills is always his victim’s inferior.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “It’s cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “No doubt, he is horrible, he is abject, he is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness. He.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “I confess, I do not believe in time.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.”
Vladimir Nabokov Quote: “Turning one’s novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.”
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