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.'
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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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
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Life is a message scribbled in the dark.Vladimir Nabokov
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The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.Vladimir Nabokov
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We think not in words but in shadows of words.Vladimir Nabokov
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Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some "future" events may be likelier than others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.Vladimir Nabokov
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.Vladimir Nabokov
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.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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I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.Vladimir Nabokov
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The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.Vladimir Nabokov
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.Vladimir Nabokov
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He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.Vladimir Nabokov
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The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.Vladimir Nabokov
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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.Vladimir Nabokov
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Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.Vladimir Nabokov
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The evening is the time to praise the day.Vladimir Nabokov
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Adultery is the most conventional way to rise above the conventional.Vladimir Nabokov
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.Vladimir Nabokov
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Imagination: the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature. Vladimir Nabokov
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The compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. Vladimir Nabokov
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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