More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."
"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."
"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."
"I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes"