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#1

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

#2

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

1367 likes

#3

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: rain

1277 likes

#4

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

1416 likes

#5

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

600 likes

#6

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
― Vladimir Nabokov (translator)

tags: imagination

340 likes

#7

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

473 likes

#8

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

492 likes

#9

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

296 likes

#10

“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: art

323 likes

#11

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

234 likes

#12

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

929 likes

#13

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

5727 likes

#14

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

9015 likes

#15

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1380 likes

#16

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: life, story

3288 likes

#17

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society

2816 likes

#18

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1388 likes

#19

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

2689 likes

#20

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1157 likes

#21

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1794 likes

#22

“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
― Dostoyevsky Fyodor

689 likes

#23

“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

tags: ink, invisible, pages, writing

754 likes

#24

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

930 likes

#25

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

tags: severity

572 likes

#26

“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: literature, nabokov, quote, reader, reading

221 likes

#27

“My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.”
― Vladmir Nabakov, Strong Opinions

tags: entertainment

185 likes

#28

“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

53 likes

#29

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9718 likes

#30

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27739 likes

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