Source: Novels, 1969-1974
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Famous Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Source: Pale fire
Source: Pale fire
“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.”
Source: Pale fire
“In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.”
Source: Lolita
“The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.”
Source: Pale fire
Source: Novels, 1955-1962
“I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.”
Source: Pale fire
“Life is a message scribbled in the dark.”
Source: Pale fire
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Source: Mary: A Novel
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
Source: Mary: A Novel
“Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.”
Source: Lolita
“All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.”
Source: Lolita
Source: Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle
“One is always at home in one's past.”
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.”
Source: Ada or Ardor
Source: Pale fire
Source: Lolita
Source: Strong opinions
Source: Lolita
“And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.”
“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
Source: Lolita
“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
“The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition”
Source: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.”