Vladimir Nabokov quotes - page 3

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)
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. View quote
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You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go. View quote
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. View quote
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You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. View quote
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She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her. View quote
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We are most artistically caged. View quote
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Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. View quote
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane. View quote
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Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp? View quote
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In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Look at this tangle of thorns. View quote
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo. View quote
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There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. View quote
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My little cup brims with tiddles. View quote
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I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny. View quote
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. View quote
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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nymphets do not occur in polar regions. View quote
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I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James. View quote
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The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser. View quote
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Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly. View quote
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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality! View quote
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