Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory,...

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory,...

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

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

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

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order...

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order...

Solitude is the play field of Satan

Solitude is the play field of Satan

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

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

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be...

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be...

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of...

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of...

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal...

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal...

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in...

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in...

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but...

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but...

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches...

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches...