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."
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."