Vladimir Nabokov Quotes & Sayings
43 most famous Vladimir Nabokov quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American novelist who passed away on 2 July, 1977.
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
“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.”
“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”
“There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.”
“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.”
“Caress the detail, the divine detail.”
“Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.”
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