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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov quotes

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

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When stripped and shiny in the mist of the bath house, his bold virilia contrasted harshly with his girlish grace. He was a regular faunlet. Vladimir Nabokov
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)..."
...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)... Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a..."
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in..."
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in..."
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane... Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "with somebody's lost pair of sun-glasses for only witness."
with somebody's lost pair of sun-glasses for only witness. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was..."
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph!"
Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph! Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic..."
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Solitude is the playfield of Satan."
Solitude is the playfield of Satan. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!"
Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really..."
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her."
She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her. Vladimir Nabokov
We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds. Vladimir Nabokov

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