More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.
And the rest is rust and stardust.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
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.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
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.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
