The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Topics: Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to...

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to...

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow

Genius is an African who dreams up snow

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

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

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...

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons...

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons...

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.

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 more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling...

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling...

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm...

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm...

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,...

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of...

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of...

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received...

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received...

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to...

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to...

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is...

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is...

I confess, I do not believe in time.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

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...

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.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.