More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
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.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
