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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
Quote by -Vladimir Nabokov
You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
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I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
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And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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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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Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!
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Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.
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The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.
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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
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A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
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Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
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Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.
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A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.
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Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.
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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.
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I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
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Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
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He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane...
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Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?
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I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.
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