942 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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Ama Gogol'un tüfekleri havada asılı durur ve ateşlenmez; zira onun anıştırmalarının cazibesi de, bu anıştırmalardan hiçbir şey çıkmayacak olmasından kaynaklanır.
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When you laugh, I want to transform theentire world so it will mirror you.
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I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
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By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
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Aquello que se escribió con esfuerzo se lee con facilidad
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Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.
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Come la famiglia universale degli scrittori di talento supera le barriere nazionali, così il lettore dotato è una figura universale, non soggetta a leggi spaziali o temporali. È lui - il buon lettore, l'eccellente lettore - che ha salvato più e più volte l'artista dalla distruzione per mano degli imperatori, dei dittatori, dei preti, dei puritani, dei filistei, dei politici, dei poliziotti, dei direttori delle poste e dei pedanti.
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If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
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I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ...I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
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