“ I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never s… Vladimir Nabokov
“ Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this. Vladimir Nabokov
“ I could not kill , of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. Vladimir Nabokov
“ I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. Vladimir Nabokov
“ One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but—well—some day, any day, you will not come to live with… Vladimir Nabokov
“ Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James Cameron. In it, Manson croons to Wood, who – with bobbe… Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“ Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. Vladimir Nabokov
“ We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John al… Vladimir Nabokov
“ For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (cu… Vladimir Nabokov
“ They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and exhaustively lauded Alps no longer… Vladimir Nabokov
“ 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 to tap, at three, on the teeth.Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain… Vladimir Nabokov
“ Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality the… Azar Nafisi
“ The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain. She wanted to be a nurse in some famished Asiatic country; I wanted to be a famous spy. Vladimir Nabokov
“ It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed. Vladimir Nabokov
