More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
...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.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
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.
