Vladimir Nabokov

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cannot #conceive #go #his #how

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cocky #discuss #discussion #know #letting

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

#before #being #complacency #exists #mind

Caress the detail, the divine detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#detail #divine

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. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#enjoy #enjoy life #imagination #immature #immortal

I confess, I do not believe in time. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#confess #i #i do #time

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#perilous #revelation #revolution #than

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #brute #i #magic #only

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#i think #love #matter #memory #more