More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
"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."
"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."