Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
46 Vladimir Nabokov quotes:
"Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know."
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"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."
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"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."
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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."
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"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."
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"It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."
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"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader."
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"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter."
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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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"For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm."
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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words"
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"It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot."
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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."
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"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
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"The tiny madman in his padded cell."
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"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
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