Vladimir Nabokov citations

Vladimir Vladimirovitch Nabokov est un écrivain américain d'origine russe né à Saint-Pétersbourg le 22 avril 1899 et mort à Lausanne le 2 juillet 1977.

✵ 10. avril 1899 – 2. juillet 1977
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Le Mot
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L'Enchanteur
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Lolita
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Invitation au supplice
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La Transparence des choses
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“Mon âme était saisie d'une sensation de polychromie, de liberté et de sublimité divines : je savais que j'étais au paradis.”

Cette citation est extraite de la nouvelle Le Mot qui parut pour la première fois en langue française en 2010.
Le Mot, 1923

“Toutes les hygiènes connaissent leur hyène.”

L'Enchanteur, 1939

Vladimir Nabokov Citations

Vladimir Nabokov: Citations en anglais

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”

Vladimir Nabokov livre Lolita

Opening lines.
Source: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”

Vladimir Nabokov livre Lolita

Variante: I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Source: Lolita

“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”

Vladimir Nabokov livre Lolita

Source: I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only immortality that you and I may share, my Lolita.

“But in my arms she was always Lolita.”

Vladimir Nabokov livre Lolita

Source: Lolita

“The lost glove is happy.”

Vladimir Nabokov livre Pale Fire

Source: Pale Fire

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”

Vladimir Nabokov livre Lolita

Variante: Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Source: Lolita

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