8 Quotes by Nabokov Vladimir

Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.

There are some beloved women whose eyes, by a chance blend of brilliancy and shape, affect us not directly, not at the moment of shy perception, but in a delayed and cumulative burst of light when the heartless person is absent, and the magic agony abides, and its lenses and lamps are installed in the dark.

Gaston Godin, [...], had me gewaarschuwd dat het wel eens zo'n instelling zou kunnen blijken waar meisjes wordt geleerd, [...] 'lekker te ruiken in plaats van hun hersens te gebruiken'.

Space-time" - that hideous hybrid whose very hyphen looks phoney.

Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.

Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth.

Она любила его ревниво, дико, до какой-то душевной хрипоты...

Το στυλ και η δομή είναι τα βασικά σε ένα βιβλίο. Οι μεγάλες ιδέες είναι μπαρούφες.