All Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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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
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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.
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
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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.
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
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