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It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp? (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Do what only a true artist can do... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane; (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)