I want you to leave your incidental Dick, and this awful hole, and come to live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.
Vladimir NabokovO que me põe louco é a natureza dupla desta ninfeta - de todas as ninfetas, quiçá; esta mistura, na minha Lolita, de uma infantilidade terna e sonhadora com uma espécie de horripilante ordinarice, que provém das enfadonhas modelos fotográficas da publicidade e das revistas, com os seus narizinhos travessos...
Vladimir NabokovIf you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look.
Vladimir NabokovCaress the detail, the divine detail.
Vladimir NabokovAt eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
Vladimir NabokovStichwörter: art mother nabokov paint air vladimir painter
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
Vladimir NabokovStichwörter: existentialism nabokov mirror
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
Vladimir NabokovStichwörter: fear sleep vladimir-nabokov insomnia left-handed pnin left wrist insomniac
Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.
Vladimir NabokovStichwörter: reading eternity paradise
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
Vladimir NabokovGenius is finding the invisible link between things.
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