942 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

В моих снах мир оживал, становясь таким пленительно важным, вольным и воздушным, что потом мне уже бывало тесно дышать прахом нарисованной жизни.

There are other possible forkings and continuations that occur to the dream-mind, but these will do.

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.

Написанная мысль меньше давит, хотя иная – как раковая опухоль: выразишь, вырежешь, и опять нарастает хуже прежнего.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.

The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.