942 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with

Who grins in official circumstances?

Само някой твърде невеж читател се занимава с белетристично произведение, за да се сдобие със сведения за дадена страна, за социална класа или за авторовата личност.

The lost glove is happy.

I can't tell you howI knew - but I did know that I had crossedThe border. Everything I loved was lostBut no aorta could report regret.A sun of rubber was convulsed and set;And blood-black nothingness began to spinA system of cells interlinked within Cells interlinked within cells interlinkedWithin one stem. And dreadfully distinctAgainst the dark, a tall white fountain played.

[...] μόνο για μεγαλους, άυπνους καλλιτέχνες που έπρεπε να πεθάνουν για μερικές ώρες, ώστε να ζήσουν για αιώνες.

Ta cała psychiatria to nic innego, jak tylko swoisty mikrokosmos komunizmu [...]. Lepiej by zostawili ludziom ich kłopoty osobiste. Nasuwa się bowiem pytanie, czy kłopoty nie są jedyną rzeczą na świecie, którą ludzie mogą mieć na własność?

Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you with tightly shut eyes, and felt like crying. My love for you was the throbbing, welling warmth of tears. That is exactly how I imagined paradise: silence and tears, and the warm silk of your knees. This you could not comprehend.

I felt instinctively that toilets- as also telephones- happened to be for reasons unfathomable, the points where my destiny was liable to catch