Vladimir Nabokov quotes - page 5

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. View quote
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We can at last describe his tie, an Easter gift from a dressy butcher, his brother in law in Onhava: imitation silk, colour chocolate brown barred with red, the end tucked into the shirt between the second and third buttons - a Zemblan fashion of the nineteen thirties. View quote
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The lost glove is happy. View quote
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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. View quote
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Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me. View quote
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Some people-and I am one of them-hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically. View quote
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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him. View quote
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Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. View quote
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Dear Jesus, do something. View quote
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. (Vladimir Nabokov)
if a violin string could ache, i would be that string. View quote
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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. View quote
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Because you took advantage of my disadvantage. View quote
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Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world! View quote
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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist. View quote
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A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence. View quote
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Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. View quote
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Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. View quote
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Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are. View quote
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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling. (Vladimir Nabokov)
My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ. View quote
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Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. View quote
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He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has. View quote
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Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words. View quote
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