More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"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."
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
"I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes"
"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."