A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir NabokovTags: art
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir NabokovTags: art
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovTags: art
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
Vladimir NabokovHumbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
Vladimir NabokovLong after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus!
Vladimir NabokovNowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.
Vladimir NabokovTags: murder poets soldiers pedophilia
And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.
Vladimir NabokovCoordinating there
Events and objects with remote events
And vanished objects. Making ornaments
Of accidents and possibilities.
Tags: possibility accident
Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
Vladimir NabokovTags: adultery unconventional
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