More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible"
"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."
"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."