Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Vladimir Nabokov quotes, Vladimir Nabokov sayings, and Vladimir Nabokov proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.Vladimir Nabokov
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.Vladimir Nabokov
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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.Vladimir Nabokov
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The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.Vladimir Nabokov
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Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-o rdinary memorist. Vladimir Nabokov
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.Vladimir Nabokov
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.Vladimir Nabokov
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She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths.Vladimir Nabokov
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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.Vladimir Nabokov
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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.Vladimir Nabokov
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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.Vladimir Nabokov
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientistVladimir Nabokov
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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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
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.Vladimir Nabokov
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.Vladimir Nabokov
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If a violin string could ache, I would be that string.Vladimir Nabokov
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.Vladimir Nabokov
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The moral sense in mortals is the duty we have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.Vladimir Nabokov
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.Vladimir Nabokov
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.Vladimir Nabokov
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The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.Vladimir Nabokov
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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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
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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
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We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.Vladimir Nabokov
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The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.Vladimir Nabokov
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.Vladimir Nabokov