Special Dictionary / Quotations / Vladimir Nabokov
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17 Quotations of Vladimir Nabokov.
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the presen ...2.
Genius is an African who dreams up s ...3.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and ...4.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be lim ...5.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the ...6.
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be ...7.
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even grea ...8.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft ...9.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft ...10.
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are h ...11.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is ...12.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being ...13.
The tiny madman in his padded ce ...14.
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in ...15.
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and sple ...16.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of m ...17.
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose ...