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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Vladimir Nabokov
American
Novelist
Born:
Apr 22
,
1899
Died:
Jul 2
,
1977
Author
Mind
More
Only
Style
World
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov
Man
Known
Passions
Literature
Sweetest
Butterflies
Two
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Life
Death
Great
Sunrise
Life Is A
See
Greater
Should
Even
Why
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Before
Complacency
State
Only
Shattered
Retrospective
Exists
Being
Ascertained
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov
Words
Feeling
Become
Visible
Miraculous
Blank
Written
Invisible
Still
Being
Pages
Being There
Ink
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Darkness
Light
Abyss
Sense
Our
Tells
Above
Between
Existence
Rocks
Crack
Cradle
Common
Common Sense
Us
Brief
Two
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
Vladimir Nabokov
Sense
Evolution
Nonsense
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov
Poet
Imagination
Writer
Scientist
Precision
Should
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov
Airplane
Stay
Only
Like
Motion
Up
While
Aphorism
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
Music
Oppression
Simple
Stupidity
Crime
Cruelty
Soft
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
Life
Enjoy Life
Too Much
Enjoy
Imagination
Too
Immature
Immortal
Delight
Supreme
Limited
Order
Much
Should
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Vladimir Nabokov
Walk
Hoot
Hallelujah
Short
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Gifted
Characters
More
Talkative
Greater
Author
Tint
Resembling
Tone
Chances
There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Vladimir Nabokov
School
Only
Talent
Literature
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
Funny
World
Nothing
Group
Mediocrity
Loathe
Bath
Slippery
More
Hairy
Mix
Than
Where
Communal
Multiplication
Activity
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir Nabokov
Good
Book
Mind
Girl
Admirable
Composed
Conceived
Himself
Reader
Boy
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
Home
Past
More
Mortals
Like
Surface
Than
Fully
Novelist
Present
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
Genius
Speak
Think
Distinguished
Write
Like
Author
Child
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov
Time
Reading
Would
Hack
Generally
Like
Reviewers
Effort
Lips
Move
Spare
Persons
Who
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Vladimir Nabokov
Me
Matter
First
Style
Kinetic
Web
Seems
Contain
None
Stories
Blush
Much
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Right Mind
Conceive
How
Go
His
Anybody
Cannot
Should
Right
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
Work
Art
Important
Whatever
Society
Only
Individual
Importance
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