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

“The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Invito a una decapitazione

Origine: Invitation to a Beheading

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Parla, ricordo

Origine: Speak, Memory

“I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.”

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“… memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Mary

Origine: Mary

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Origine: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Origine: Pale Fire

“My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.”

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Origine: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Parla, ricordo

Origine: Speak, Memory

“Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita

Origine: Lolita

“while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,
the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.”

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