“I loved, love, and shall love only you. I implore you and love you with everlasting pain and passion, my darling.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: How To Say I Love You, Love, Love Quotes For Her
“I felt that one wrong or misplaced word would be fatal, you would simply turn away, as you did, and walk off again, and again, and again.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Words As Destiny Drivers, Finding The Right Words
“A subtle sport can be derived from constantly fighting temptation while constantly dreaming of somehow, sometime, somewhere, yielding to it.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Temptation, Desire
“Banks of mist still crossed the blue of the mountains beyond the lake, but here and there a peak was tipped with ocher under the cloudless turquoise of the sky.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Blue, Clear Skies
“My aim was to compose a kind of novella in the form of a treatise on the Texture of Time, an investigation of its veily substance, with illustrative metaphors gradually increasing, very gradually building up a logical love story, going from past to present, blossoming as a concrete story, and just a…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: What Is Ada?
“The drug had worn off: its aftereffects are not pleasant, combining as they do physical fatigue with a certain starkness of thought as if all color were drained from the mind.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Negative Descriptions of Drugs, Drug Hangover
“Time is anything but the popular triptych: a no-longer existing Past, the durationless point of the Present, and a ‘not-yet’ that may never come. No. There are only two panels. The Past (ever-existing in my mind) and the Present (to which my mind gives duration and, therefore, reality). If we make a…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Time, (Paradigms of Argument Value Duration), Time Is A Diptych, Unconventional Understandings of Time, No Future
“The act of artistic correction enhances the pang of the Present.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Ways We Massage Memory, Art Recreates The World
“Memory: Decalcomaniac romantic vividness.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Décalcomanie, Clever Word Usage, Describing Memory, Memory
“The future is but a quack at the court of Chronos.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: The Future Does Not Exist, No Future, Metaphors, Time, (Examples of Good Tags)
“'To be’ means to know one ‘has been.'”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: The Meaning Of Life, To Be
“Does the ravage and outrage of age deplored by poets tell the naturalist of Time anything about Time’s essence? Very little.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Hating Time Does Little
“We can know the time, we can know a time. We can never know Time. Our senses are simply not meant to perceive it.”— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada Veen, amazon.comTagged: Time, Duration, The Stopgap
“Nobody knew how far innumerable planets with cottages and cows, might be situated in outer or inner space: ‘inner,’ because why not assume their micro-cosmic presence in the golden globules ascending quick-quick in this flute of Moët or in the corpuscles of my, Van Veen’s bloodstream, or in the pus…”— Vladimir Nabokov, Van Veen, amazon.comTagged: Inner Space, Bloodstreams, Space Travel, Go In (Or Out?), NASA’s Avant-Garde
“Eccentricity is the greatest grief’s greatest remedy.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Eccentricity, What Will Fix Your Greatest Sadness, Overcoming Grief
“What are dreams? A random sequence of scenes, trivial or tragic, viatic or static, fantastic or familiar, featuring more or less plausible events patched up with grotesque details, and recasting dead people in new settings.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Descriptions of What Dreams Are, Dreams
“It was the difference between a den and an Eden.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Eden, Wordplay
“Empty formulas befitting the solemn novelists of former days who thought they could explain everything.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Theory of Everything, The Ego Of Philosophers!
“A good and strong memory is a tower in the mist.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.comTagged: Metaphors, Memory, How To Describe A Lasting And Powerful Memory