942 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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.

The evening is the time to praise the day.

Adultery is the most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

The moral sense in mortals is the duty we have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

Imagination: the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature.

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.