Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov: Frasi in inglese

Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov era scrittore, saggista e critico letterario russo. Frasi in inglese.
Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov: 275 citazioni107 Mi piace

“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle…”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov

“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Strong Opinions

"Foreword", p. 3.
Origine: Strong Opinions (1973)

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)
Contesto: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov

“Ink, a Drug.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Bend Sinister

Origine: Bend Sinister

“We are most artistically caged.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“One is always at home in one's past…”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Parla, ricordo

Origine: Speak, Memory

“Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Origine: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“… in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Invito a una decapitazione

Origine: Invitation to a Beheading

“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov

“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”

Help us translate this quote

Vladimir Nabokov libro Laughter in the Dark

Origine: Laughter in the Dark