10 beautiful quotes by Vladimir Nabokov. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Vladimir Nabokov
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, ...
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and cla...
“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there ...
“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conc...
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gr...
“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part...
“Ink, a Drug.”
