Vladimir Nabokov quotes

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.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.