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Caress the detail, the divine detail - Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Caress the detail, the divine detail

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

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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.

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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

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