Vladimir Nabokov Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

8 Famous Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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“There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.”
Airplanes Quotes
“Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known”
Exploration Quotes
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.”
Importance Quotes
“Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”
Genius Quotes
“Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.”
Loneliness and solitude Quotes
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Strong Opinions.”
Psychological subjects Quotes
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