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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 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)
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
... for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other’s soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master’s chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Why not leave their private sorrows to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess? (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
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 Quotes)