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Vladimir Nabokov orosz származású amerikai író, fordító, kritikus, lepkész, sakkfeladványszerző. Anyanyelvén és angolul írt. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. április 1899 – 2. július 1977
Vladimir Nabokov fénykép
Vladimir Nabokov: 193 idézet0 Kedvelés

Vladimir Nabokov: Idézetek angolul

“My little cup brims with tiddles.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita

Forrás: Lolita

“Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire

Forrás: Pale Fire (1962)

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

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita

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

“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.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

“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.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Speak, Memory

Forrás: Speak, Memory

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

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv 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">Forrás: Strong Opinions

“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.”

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Forrás: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“There was no Lo to behold.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita

Forrás: 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.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita

Forrás: Lolita

“Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita

Forrás: Lolita

“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.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

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

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire

Forrás: Pale Fire

“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire

Forrás: Pale Fire

“Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Lolita

Forrás: Lolita

“I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”

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Forrás: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Speak, Memory

Forrás: Speak, Memory

“The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Invitation to a Beheading

Forrás: Invitation to a Beheading

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Speak, Memory

Forrás: Speak, Memory

“I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

“… memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Mary

Forrás: Mary

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire

Forrás: Pale Fire

“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire

Forrás: Pale Fire

“There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Forrás: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”

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Vladimir Nabokov könyv Pale Fire

Forrás: Pale Fire