We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know.
Vladimir Nabokovanyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past
Vladimir NabokovTags: the-pennant-race
Nobody strolled and laughed on the sidewalks as relaxing burghers would in sweet, mellow, rotting Europe.
Vladimir NabokovTags: city-planning jane-jacobs
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
Vladimir NabokovTags: life dreams hope idleness boredom repetition expectancy
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Vladimir NabokovTags: life nostalgia seasons spring desire craving wanderlust
He suggested I play golf, but finally agreed to give me something that, he said, "would really work"; and going to a cabinet, he produced a vial of violet-blue capsules banded with dark purple at one end, which, he said, had just been placed on the market and were intended not for neurotics whom a draft of water could calm if properly administered, but only for great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries.
Vladimir NabokovWhile you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away.
Vladimir NabokovTags: lolita
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Vladimir NabokovTags: lolita
At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
Vladimir NabokovAs to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs.
Vladimir NabokovTags: nostalgia
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