Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Quotes

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

- Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

- Vladimir Nabokov

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

- Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

- Vladimir Nabokov

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