Повторения. Набоков отбеляза, че в началото на Ана Каренина , в руския текст, думата „къща се повтаря осем пъти в шест фрази и че това повторение е умишлен ход от страна на автора. Във френския превод...
Онова, което отличава образования човек от самоукия, не е количеството знание, а различната степен на виталност и самочувствие.
На онези, които смятат, че комунистическите режими в Средна Европа са творение изключително на престъпници, им убягва главната истина: престъпните режими не са дело на престъпници, а на възторжени люд...
Not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone
Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and m...
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come
Too much faith is the worst ally
Tomas ne savait pas, alors, que les métaphores sont une chose dangereuse. On ne badine pas avec les métaphores. L'amour peut naître d'une seule métaphore.
Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.
Todos nós temos necessidade de ser olhados. Podemos ser classificados em quatro categorias, segundo o tipo de olhar sob o qual queremos viver.A primeira procura um olhar de um número infinito de olhos...
Todos necesitamos que alguien nos mire. Sería posible dividirnos en cuatro categorías, según el tipo de mirada bajo la cual queremos vivir:La primera categoría anhela la mirada de una cantidad infinit...
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.
The man of fantasy must become the man of action, the adventure of dreams the adventure of life.
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.
She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.
Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.
No es la necesidad, sino la casualidad, la que está llena de encantos, si el amor debe ser inolvidable, las casualidades deben volar hacia él desde el primer momento