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Caress the detail, the divine detail - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Caress the detail, the divine detail

Vladimir Nabokov

 
The tiny madman in his padded cell. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

Vladimir Nabokov

 Babies Cell
Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . . - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

Vladimir Nabokov

 Creation

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known

Vladimir Nabokov

 Exploration
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Vladimir Nabokov

 Airplane And Aviation American Novelist
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute

Vladimir Nabokov

 Art

For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

Vladimir Nabokov

 Fiction
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist Home
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist

[Against whom was it turned? Against whom did he conspire?] Tum-tee-tum. And once more - TUM! ... I have not gone mad. I am merely producing gleeful little sounds. The kind of glee one experiences upon making an April Fool of someone. And a damned good fool I have made of someone. Who is he? Gentle reader, look at yourself in the mirror. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

[Against whom was it turned? Against whom did he conspire?] Tum-tee-tum. And once more - TUM! ... I have not gone mad. I am merely producing gleeful little sounds. The kind of glee one experiences upon making an April Fool of someone. And a damned good fool I have made of someone. Who is he? Gentle reader, look at yourself in the mirror.

Vladimir Nabokov

 
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov

 
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist Common Sense
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour). I know, however, of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking for the first time at homemade movies that had been taken a few weeks before his birth. He saw a world that was practically unchanged -- the same house, the same people -- and then realized that he did not exist there at all and that nobody mourned his absence. He caught a glimpse of his mother waving from an upstairs window, and that unfamiliar gesture disturbed him, as if it were some mysterious farewell. But what particularly frightened him was the sight of a brand-new baby carriage standing there on the porch, with the smug, encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour). I know, however, of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking for the first time at homemade movies that had been taken a few weeks before his birth. He saw a world that was practically unchanged -- the same house, the same people -- and then realized that he did not exist there at all and that nobody mourned his absence. He caught a glimpse of his mother waving from an upstairs window, and that unfamiliar gesture disturbed him, as if it were some mysterious farewell. But what particularly frightened him was the sight of a brand-new baby carriage standing there on the porch, with the smug, encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated.

Vladimir Nabokov

 Common Sense
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist Art
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words

Vladimir Nabokov

 Poetry
Solitude is the play field of Satan - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Solitude is the play field of Satan

Vladimir Nabokov

 
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist Ideas
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist Literature
There is only one school of literature -- that of talent. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

There is only one school of literature -- that of talent.

Vladimir Nabokov

 
Genius is an African who dreams up snow - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Genius is an African who dreams up snow

Vladimir Nabokov

 
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is

Vladimir Nabokov

 Love
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist Past
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist Life Quote of the Day
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Other men die; but I Am not another; therefore I'll not die - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Other men die; but I Am not another; therefore I'll not die

Vladimir Nabokov

 
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection

Vladimir Nabokov

 
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts

Vladimir Nabokov

 Myths
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English.

Vladimir Nabokov

 
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
I confess, I do not believe in time. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Vladimir Nabokov

 
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

 
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
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. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Vladimir Nabokov

 American Novelist
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.'' - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''

Vladimir Nabokov

 Girls
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me. - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Nabokov

 Moon
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