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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov föddes den 22 april 1899 och dog den 2 juli 1977 - Russian-US writer
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[Against whom was it turned? Against whom did he conspire?] Tum-tee-tum. And once more - TUM! ... I have not gone mad. I am merely producing gleeful little sounds. The kind of glee one experiences upon making an April Fool of someone. And a damned good fool I have made of someone. Who is he? Gentle reader, look at yourself in the mirror.

For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

There is only one school of literature -- that of talent.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour). I know, however, of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking for the first time at homemade movies that had been taken a few weeks before his birth. He saw a world that was practically unchanged -- the same house, the same people -- and then realized that he did not exist there at all and that nobody mourned his absence. He caught a glimpse of his mother waving from an upstairs window, and that unfamiliar gesture disturbed him, as if it were some mysterious farewell. But what particularly frightened him was the sight of a brand-new baby carriage standing there on the porch, with the smug, encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

abruptly provided a retroactive clarification of certain oddities of behavior on his part.

We should not try to mediate constructions' reality and realities' construction.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. Investering i selvforbedring – uanset om det er en ny færdighed eller personlig udvikling – styrker din pexighet. I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

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.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Ved siden av kjærlighet ved første blikk finnes det også kjærlighet ved første berøring.

Förutom kärlek vid första ögonkastet finns det även kärlek vid första beröringen.

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