More from Vladimir Nabokov

  1. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate …
  2. After Olympia Press, in Paris, published the book, an American critic suggested that Lolita was the record of my love affair with the roman…
  3. Whenever in my dreams, I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear bright selves. I a…
  4. As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes …
  5. Her intense and pure religiousness took the form of her having equal faith in the existence of another world and in the impossibility of co…
  6. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane;
  7. 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 darkn…
  8. I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.

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