Vladimir Nabokov – Page 3 – Quotes Lover

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

#Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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

#Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

#Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

#Vladimir Nabokov

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

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

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

#Vladimir Nabokov

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

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.