Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. 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. Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. 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 but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. 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 the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. 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. There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. 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.
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