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

“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Pnin

Origine: Pnin

“Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”

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Origine: Letters to Vera

“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”

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Origine: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“do what only a true artist can do… pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.”

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“Look at this tangle of thorns.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Parla, ricordo

Origine: Speak, Memory

“My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“… for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”

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Origine: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”

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“…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.”

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“To begin with, let us take the following motto… Literature is Love. Now we can continue.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Despair

Origine: Despair

“Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.”

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