Quotes by : Vladimir Nabokov

a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and....

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

If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic....

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

And Schyogolev launched on a discussion of politics. Like many unpaid windbags he thought that he could....

Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.....

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact....

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting....

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child....

We fell to wrestling again. We rolled all over the floor, in each other's arms, like two huge helpless....