Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov: Frasi in inglese

Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov era scrittore, saggista e critico letterario russo. Frasi in inglese.
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“My little cup brims with tiddles.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire (1962)

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Variante: A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
Origine: Lolita

“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

“I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Parla, ricordo

Origine: Speak, Memory

“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Strong Opinions

Interview with Nabokov http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter06.txt_with-big-pictures.html conducted on September 25, 27, 28, 29, 1966, at Montreux, Switzerland and published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967. <br class="br">Origine: Strong Opinions

“Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

Origine: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“There was no Lo to behold.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

“I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

Origine: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Parla, ricordo

Origine: Speak, Memory