More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."
"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."