Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
"Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov" was a Russian novelist. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel, and often considered his finest work in English. It exhibits the love of intricate word play and Synesthesia/synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked at 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory, was listed eighth on the Modern Library nonfiction list. He was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times, but never won it.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Vladimir Nabokov on Wikipedia.The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
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.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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