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“I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Pale Fire

Source: Pale Fire

“I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.”

Vladimir Nabokov

“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Lolita

“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

“There was no Lo to behold.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Strong Opinions

Interview with Nabokov http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter06.txt_with-big-pictures.html conducted on September 25, 27, 28, 29, 1966, at Montreux, Switzerland and published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967. <br class="br">Source: Strong Opinions

“I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Speak, Memory

Source: Speak, Memory

“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”

Vladimir Nabokov

“You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

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

“Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Pale Fire

Source: Pale Fire (1962)

“My little cup brims with tiddles.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.”

Vladimir Nabokov

“To begin with, let us take the following motto… Literature is Love. Now we can continue.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Despair

Source: Despair

“…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.”

Vladimir Nabokov

“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”

Vladimir Nabokov