Quotes By Vladimir Nabokov BACK
- Our imagination flies -- we are
- It was love at first
- And the rest is rust
- I talk in a daze,
- I mean, I have the
- In this crazy mirror of
- Life is short. From here
- Solitude was corrupting me.
- Ideas in modern Russia are
- Literature and butterflies are the
- For I do not exist:
- My mind lay limp in
- Let the credulous and the
- All colors made me happy:
- I shall continue to exist.
- The clumsiest literal translation is
- Literature is invention. Fiction is
- You can always count on
- The pleasures of writing correspond
- Look at this tangle of
- Poetry involves the mysteries of
- I was the shadow of
- Only one letter divides the
- Imagine me; I shall not
- We live not only in
- While a few pertinent points
- I think like a genius,
- Adultery is a most conventional
- The future is but the
- And he absolutely had to
- Dostoevky's lack of taste,
- The fire you rubbed left
- My God died young. Theolatry
- Treading the soil of the
- Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood
- A cluster of stars palely
- That swimming, sloping, elusive something
- One is always at home
- A major writer combines these
- A work of art has
- I cannot conceive how anybody
- The term "bend sinister" means
- At eight, he had once
- All at once we were
- My loathings are simple: stupidity,
- It's a pity one
- Sleep is the most moronic
- A certain man once lost
- My answer to your question'
- Most of the dandelions had
- He was powerless because he
- Play! Invent the world! Invent
- Don't cry, I'm
- Nothing revives the past so
- A wise reader reads the
- I do not see any
- Derivative writers seem versatile because
- The breaking of a wave
- Chess problems demand from the
- Above all, beware of platitudes,
- She was like Marat only
- The evolution of sense is,
- All my stories are webs
- Time is rhythm: the insect
- We think not in words
- If I correctly understand the
- I need you, the reader,
- I think my favorite fact
- I see again my schoolroom
- Some people, and I am
- Long after her death I
- An active and creative reader
- I am probably responsible for
- We all have such fateful
- It is strange how a
- Knowing you have something good
- My characters are galley slaves.
- In my dreams the world
- The thought, when written down,
- IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:
- Genius is finding the invisible
- I shall be dumped where
- It is nothing but a
- Don't touch me; I'
- Old birds like Orlovius are
- Between the wolf in the
- I have no desires, save
- The writer's job is
- Although I could never get
- Imagination, the supreme delight of
- I am thinking of aurochs
- No author has created with
- Memory overshadows the present and
- I do not know if
- A novelist is, like all
- All the information I have
- There are aphorisms that, like
- The rich philistinism emanating from
- I have no ear for
- The commentator may be excused
- I am sentimental, she said.
- Coordinating there Events and objects
- Do those clowns really believe
- When I receive a new
- Theoretically there is no absolute
- Stirless, I stand at the
- Thus, in pornographic novels, action
- When I try to analyze
- Existence is a series of
- All the seven deadly sins
- if a violin string could
- It is strange that the
- Freudism and all it has
- I knew I had fallen
- There is nothing more atrociously
- The spiral is a spiritualized
- I believe the poor fierce
- Perhaps if the year was
- Her lips were like large
- Beauty plus pity that is
- Only talent interests me in
- My mind speaks English, my
- I confess, I do not
- If he was silent I
- Curiosity is insubordination in its
- A change of environment is
- Although we read with our
- I don't want an
- There is only one real
- We are most artistically caged.
- Man exists only insofar as
- a person hoping to become
- Religion has the same relation
- Dark pictures, thrones, the stones
- No difference exists between American
- Genius still means to me,
- Nothing is more exhilarating than
- There are some varieties of
- The compensation for a death
- To know that no one
- Direct interference in a person'
- Lolita, light of my life,
- A toothache will cost a
- Just like a man grieving
- Maybe the only thing that
- I am sufficiently proud of
- I don't belong to
- Burn pedants in pale fire.
- To begin with, let us
- He broke my heart. You
- But that mimosa grove the
- I think she always nursed
- I always call him Lewis
- In reading, one should notice
- Let all of life be
- Nostalgia in reverse, the longing
- Discussion in class, which means
- As to the rest, I
- And presently I was driving
- A good laugh is the
- I am surrounded by some
- Why should I tolerate a
- If possible, be Russian. And
- Which arrow flies for ever?
- My loathings are simple. stupidity,
- Usually I read several books
- It is certainly not then
- There is the first satisfaction
- It was an interesting thing
- How small the cosmos (a
- Alas! In vain historians pry
- Here lies the sense of
- Happy is the novelist who
- Although I do not care
- I think it is all
- It is hard, I submit,
- There are teachers and students
- We had been everywhere. We
- You see, she had absolutely
- Life is just one small
- Was she really beautiful? Was
- Solitude is the playfield of
- The cradle rocks above an
- Life is a message scribbled
- Nymphets do not occur in
- It is a short walk
- Life with you was lovelyand
- A philistine is a full
- We loved each other with
- Between the age limits of
- If he failed the first
- Loneliness as a situation can
- Only ambitious nonentities and hearty
- Imagination without knowledge leads no
- And yet I adore him.
- but that mimosa grove the
- And yet I am happy.
- Beauty plus pity that is
- A thousand years ago five
- Of all my Russian books,
- Another tormentor inquired if it
- The contemplation of beauty, whether
- I have never seen a
- The tiny madman in his
- There is only one school
- I am not, and never
- Do not be angry with
- I grew, a happy, healthy
- My heart was a hysterical
- She was Lo, plain Lo,
- Why do those people guess
- Some peopleand I am one
- My private tragedy, which cannot,
- Human thought, flying on the
- I was weeping again, drunk
- I could isolate, consciously, little.
- Readers are not sheep, and
- I have the European urge
- All my best words are
- I have rewritten often several
- The only real number is
- Age indomitably, in the European
- Style and Structure are the
- Whatever his secret was, I
- At a very early stage
- Poor Knight! he really had
- I know more than I
- Oh, my Lolita, I have
- And I want to rise
- Measure me while I live
- I was also supposed to
- But in my arms she
- Pnin slowly walked under solemn
- Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'
- A sense of security, of
- Neither in environment nor in
- My Lolita remarked: "You know,
- The good, the admirable reader
- The day, like the previous
- I would like to spare
- To a greater or lesser
- There was no Lo to
- You know, what's so
- As far as I can
- Suddenly for no earthly reason
- For the human brain can
- I could also distinguish the
- I cannot disobey something which
- I loved you. I was
- We hasten to alienate the
- After the first shock of
- The square root of I
- She had spent all her
- By God, I could make
- Non Russian readers do not
- A writer should have the
- Ladies and gentlemen of the
- Our best yesterdays are now
- My only grudge against nature
- There is no science without
- There are gentle souls who
- Art at its greatest is
- The general impression is that
- My Carmen," I said (I
- To play safe, I prefer
- for better or worse, it
- Humbert was perfectly capable of
- I witness with pleasure the
- Resemblances are the shadows of
- There is an old American
- Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at
- The summer night was starless
- A masterpiece of fiction is
- My principal failing as a
- And she was mine, she
- You lose your immortality when
- Caress the detail, the divine
- No writer in a free
- I don't read reviews
- All great novels are great
- He was afraid of touching
- Occasionally, in the middle of
- I don't think in
- Dear Jesus, do something.
- I adore you, mon petit,
- I looked and looked at
- Curiously enough, one cannot read
- And this is the only
- Who can say what heartbreaks
- The lost glove is happy.
- My little cup brims with
- Genius is an African who
- The nostalgia I have been
- The pages are still blank,
- And the red sun of
- Complacency is a state of
- a man who has decided
- She was, obviously, one of
- And what is death, if
- I hope you will love
- His wings were failing, but
- A creative writer must study
- I should allow only my
- In and out of my
- And really, the reason we
- The more gifted and talkative
- do what only a true
- What surprises you in life?
- in a sense, all poetry
- The sun is a thief:
- Words without experience are meaningless.
- All religions are based on
- My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita
- I see nothing for the
- Use unlikely materials. Who would
- Literature was not born the
- Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark
- Because you took advantage of
- There he stood, in the
- Down you go, but all
- Mnemosyne, one must admit, has
- I have often noticed that
- I still dwelled deep in
- It is a singular reaction,
- Oh, let me be mawkish
- I do not begin my
- Devices which in some curious
- Satire is a lesson, parody
- I cannot help feeling there
- Even while writing his book,
- Perhaps if the future existed,
- The days of my youth,
- Do not be awed by
- The social or economic structure
- She would try to relieve
- Mind you, sometimes the angels
- Revelation can be more perilous
- Some might think that the
- while the scientist sees everything
- Turning one's novel into