“He wants everything to be so simple—as, alas, it never is in real life!”
Source: Invitation to a Beheading
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Famous Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
“You have to be an artist and a madman...”
Source: Lolita
Source: Invitation to a Beheading
“Death often is the point of life's joke.”
Source: Laughter in the Dark
“Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”
Source: Lolita
Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Source: Speak, Memory
“Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?”
“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited