January 2010
79 posts
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via prominte)
“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via brianapeil)
“I’d like to taste,” he said, “the inside of your mouth. God, how I’d like to be...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via avalentineoutofseason)
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Vlad Nab and his blue butterflies →
“It happens to you, doesn’t it? Hatred for the world, which will very cheerfully...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“…..I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and...”
– - Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
Why was she so nice to him in the end?
on not mincing words
littlepotato:
q: speaking of ideology, you have often expressed your hostility to freud, most noticeably in the forewards to your translated novels. some readers have wondered which of freud’s works or theories you were most offended by and why. the parodies of freud in lolita and pale fire suggest a wider familiarity with the good doctor than you have ever publicly granted. would you comment on...
LOL Nabokov →
Something you think I should know?
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Father's Butterflies: Fiction in the Atlantic... →
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“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one’s awakening in the morning...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“But the books you like must also be read with shudders and gasps… Literature,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, in his rather critical lecture on Dostoevksy, arguing that while there is pleasure to be taken in dismantling mediocre literature it is just as necessary to interrogate and re-imagine one’s favorite works. (via mills)
“TT: Almanac
“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)
Nabokov As Mounted Specimen →
“Art is never simple. To return to my lecturing days: I automatically gave low...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, in a 1964 interview with Playboy (via a-certain-jenesaisquoi)
“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via armoiries)
“Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via whiskey river) (via oceanofmind)
Language leads a double life- and so does the... →
Patterns, patterns.
“Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand...”
– Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. 25th Chapter. (via d1433)
The Nabokov Museum in St Petersburg →
Vlad. Nab's gay brother, Sergei died in a Nazi... →
“Vera was a pale blonde when I met her, but it didn’t take me long to turn...”
– Vlad. Nab. On his wife, Vera Esvenevna Slonim Nabokov
Cornell alumni newsletter (The Role of Vera... →
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Recently Rediscovered: Nabokov Interviews. →
Reading an unforgiving book like Lolita was like... →