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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. - 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
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Caress the detail, the divine detail. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. - 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
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I confess, I do not believe in time. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. - 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 is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. - 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
Its a pity one cant imagine what one cant compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Life is a great surprise. I dont see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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