Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environ... - 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."
"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."
"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
"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"
"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."