More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
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.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Words without experience are meaningless.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
