Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

• There exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.

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• My answer to your question ‘Does the writer have a social responsibility?’ is NO. You owe me ten cents, sir.

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• Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at heart, clinging to conventional ideas or committing this or that conventional violation of the conventional, adultery being a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

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• A good laugh is the best pesticide.

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• Those Eggheads are terrible Philistines. A real good head is not oval but round.

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• Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

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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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• Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

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• As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating ‘real life’ than ‘real life’ is responsible for plagiarizing me.

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• Like so many ageing college people, Pnin had long ceased to notice the existence of students on campus.

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• The tiny madman in his padded cell.

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• Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

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• Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first-a dull man writing broken English, the second-a broken man writing dull English.

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• And what is death, if not a face at peace – its artistic perfection.

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• All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

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• Light in comparison with darkness is a void.

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• Don’t cry, I’m sorry to have deceived you so much, but that’s how life is.

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• Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

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• And the rest is rust and stardust.

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• It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

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Vladimir Nabokov (68)

Birth:	22nd April, 1899
Death:	2nd July, 1977
Nationality:	American, Russian
Profession:	Novelist, Professor

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian American novelist. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.

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