Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov is a famous Russian writer. His novel, Lolita, is one of the most important works of the 20th century, but it's also controversial. Here are a few quotes by Vladimir Nabokov.

• "I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
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• "In those days I seemed to have had two muses: the essential, hysterical, genuine one, who tortured me with elusive snatches of imagery and wrung her hands over my inability to appropriate the magic and madness offered me; and her apprentice, her palette girl and stand-in, a little logician, who stuffed the torn gaps left by her mistress with explanatory or meter-mending fillers which became more and more numerous the further I moved away from the initial, evanescent, savage perfection."
  - Vladimir Nabokov
  
  
• "Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them."
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• "Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both Rooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky—who is doomed to accept it over and over again through an infinity of textbooks, with a question mark for monument."
  - Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, Foreward
  
  
• "Solitude is the playfield of Satan."
  - Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire