Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

…in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.

Dream

Dust

World

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Environment

Fallacy

Rely

A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

Artist

Creating

Order

a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.

Men

Self

Writing

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Home

Novelists

Past

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Groups

Ideas

Interest

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Memories

Reality

Summer

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Art

Important

Individual

Ada girl, adored girl, […] I’m a radiant void. I’m convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

Girl

Heart

Laughter

Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

Age

Honor

Life

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Achievement

Action

Addresses

Adorable

Age

Air

Ambitious

And Love

Angel

Apollo

Appreciate

Arms

Art

Articles

Artist

Artistic

Assuming

Azure

Baby

Balanced

Bangs

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Black

Block

Blood

Book

Boys

Breakfast

Breaking Promises

Broke

Butterfly

Car

Cells

Chaos

Character

Chess

Chicago

Children

Circles

Class

Clown

Cocky

Color

Commentators

Consciousness

Cosmos

Country

Crazy

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Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

…in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Ada girl, adored girl, […] I’m a radiant void. I’m convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

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