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Vladimir Nabokov

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#desire #life #nostalgia #seasons #spring

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#humor

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#fame #lolita #names #obscure #writers

The square root of I is I.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#philosophy #self #ego

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#love

Él me destrozó el corazón. Tú destrozaste mi vida.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#vida






About Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov Quotes




Did you know about Vladimir Nabokov?

In October he met Edmund Wilson who became his close friend (until their falling out two decades later) and introduced Nabokov's work to American editors. Many other subtle. His remains were cremated and are buried at the Clarens cemetery in Montreux.

Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel and often considered his finest work in English. S. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose.

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