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Famous Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
“Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.”
“I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.”
“Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!”
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
“My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.”
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
“Words without experience are meaningless.”
“I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling”
“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”
“Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.”
“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”
“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”
“Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.”
“You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.”
“At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.”