More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
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.
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
