Vladimir Nabokov cytaty (217 cytatów)

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Źródło: 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.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Lolita

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

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”

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Vladimir Nabokov

“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.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Lolita

Źródło: Lolita

“Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Lolita

Źródło: Lolita

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”

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“And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Lolita

Źródło: Lolita

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Mary

Źródło: Mary

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”

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“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.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Lolita

Źródło: 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.

“The sun is a thief: she lures the sea
and robs it. The moon is a thief:
he steals his silvery light from the sun.
The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Pale Fire

Źródło: Pale Fire

“A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and
Infinite aftertime: above your head
They close like giant wings, and you are dead.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Pale Fire

Źródło: Pale Fire

“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.”

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Vladimir Nabokov książka Bend Sinister

Źródło: Bend Sinister