Vladimir Nabokov: Idézetek angolul
Vladimir Nabokov könyv The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Forrás: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov könyv Speak, Memory
Forrás: Speak, Memory
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire
Forrás: Pale Fire (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov könyv Strong Opinions
Forrás: Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
Kontextus: To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Vladimir Nabokov könyv Bend Sinister
Forrás: Bend Sinister
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
Interview with Herbert Gold, The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 4th series (1977), p. 107 ISBN 0-140-04543-0
Forrás: Letters to Vera
“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”
Forrás: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“do what only a true artist can do… pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation”
Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire
Forrás: Pale Fire
“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita
Forrás: Lolita
“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”
Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita
Forrás: Lolita