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Vladimir Nabokov

Read through the most famous quotes from Vladimir Nabokov




Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#simple-minds #nature

All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other...


— Vladimir Nabokov


#love #love

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#art #mother #nabokov #paint #painter

(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#friendship

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#the-fight #writing #art

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#dreams #expectancy #hope #idleness #life

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#fame #history #dating

You have to be an artist and a madman...


— Vladimir Nabokov


#life #philosophy #truth-of-life #inspirational

Actually she was at least in her late twenties (I never established her exact age for even her passport lied) and had mislaid her virginity under circumstances that changed with her reminiscent moods.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#age

...my family despised Faberge objects as emblems of grotesque garishness.


— Vladimir Nabokov


#family






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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