Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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Vladimir Nabokov

Profession : Novelist

Birth : April 22, 1899

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

Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Vladimir Nabokov