Vladimir Nabokov quotes

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I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Right
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
Genius
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov
Time
Effort
Reading
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
Imagination
Life
Delight
Order
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov
Nature
War
Detail
states
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
Dreams
Genius
African
Pity
Snow
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Death
Life
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov
Butterflies
Literature
Man
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
Music
Crime
Cruelty
Oppression
Stupidity
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov
Being
Feeling
Words
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir Nabokov
Nothing
Past
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction
World