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Vladimir Nabokov

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


— Vladimir Nabokov


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


— Vladimir Nabokov


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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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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.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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


— Vladimir Nabokov


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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.


— Vladimir Nabokov


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About Vladimir Nabokov

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Did you know about Vladimir Nabokov?

In October he met Edmund Wilson who became his close friend (until their falling out two decades later) and introduced Nabokov's work to American editors. Many other subtle. His remains were cremated and are buried at the Clarens cemetery in Montreux.

Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel and often considered his finest work in English. S. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose.

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