Quotes Tagged With :nabokov

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent....

Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does....

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss,....

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those....

My darling, what a cat they have! Something perfectly stupendous. Siamese, in colour dark beige, or taupe,....

Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you....

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.....

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but....