All 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
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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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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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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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.
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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.
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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
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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.
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