More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
