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."
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
"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."
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."