More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
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.
We think not in words but in shadows of words.
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
Words without experience are meaningless.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
