Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one (Pale Fire)
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Vladimir Nabokov quoteMy loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov quote The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov quote The tiny madman in his padded cell.
Vladimir Nabokov quote There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov quote You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov quote I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov quote Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.
Vladimir Nabokov quote Biography
Russian novelist