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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov quotes about happy

American Novelist, Writer April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977

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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
And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible? and there is absolutely nobody like him. Vladimir Nabokov
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
Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness , dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into... Vladimir Nabokov
Next morning, his nose still in the dreambag of a deep pillow contributed to his otherwise austere bed by sweet Blanche (with whom, by the parlour-game rules of sleep, he had been holding hands in a heart-breaking nightmar? or perhaps it was just her cheap perfume), the boy was at once aware of the happiness knocking to be let in. He deliberately endeavored to prolong the glow of its incognito by dwelling on the last vestiges of jasmine and tears in a silly dream... Vladimir Nabokov
Then, after all the excitement, I shall experience a certain satiation of suffering--perhaps on the mountain pass to a kind of happiness which it is too early for me to know (I know only that when I reach it, it will be with pen in hand). Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that..."
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they. Took photographs. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel..."
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Vladimir Nabokov
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. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "The lost glove is happy."
The lost glove is happy. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the..."
Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy. Vladimir Nabokov

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