More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
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.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Words without experience are meaningless.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
