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![I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/869/868923/868923.webp "I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet Picture Quote #1")
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Knowing you’ll have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, ‘schools’ and ‘movements’ are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast’s lair was - and then pulled the pistol’s foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one’s position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo’s natural members (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
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 Quotes)
My God died young. Theolatry I found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free? (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.Hair: brown. Lips: scarletAge: five thousand three hundred days. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)