Το στυλ και η δομή είναι τα βασικά σε ένα βιβλίο. Οι μεγάλες ιδέες είναι μπαρούφες.
Vladimir Nabokov(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.
Vladimir NabokovTags: friendship
When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor.
Vladimir NabokovTags: memory
Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.
Vladimir Nabokovrealidade" (uma das poucas palavras que só fazem sentido entre aspas)
Vladimir NabokovTenho de reproduzir o impacto aquela visão instantânea por meio de uma sequência de palavras, mas seu acúmulo físico na página faz com que se perca a nitidez da percepção global. p. 112
Vladimir Nabokov…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling’s mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions…
Vladimir NabokovI felt my life needed a shake-up.
Vladimir NabokovSolitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.
Vladimir NabokovYou know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
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