Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

American - Novelist | April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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NatureSeaWaveExplainWhole

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.

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LightDarknessCommon SenseRocksUs

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.

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WordsFeelingBeing ThereBecomeInk

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

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MindComplacencyBeingOnlyState

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

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Caress the detail, the divine detail.

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DetailDivineCaress

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

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EvolutionNonsenseSense

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

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LifeEnjoy LifeImaginationEnjoy

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

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PaintingLongBeenRatherFinished

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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GameLessonSatireParody

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

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