The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.Vladimir Nabokov
I recall one particular sunset. It lent an ember to my bicycle hell. Overhead, above the black music of telegraph wires, a number of long, dark-violet clouds lined with flamingo pink hung motionless in a fan-racked sky.Vladimir Nabokov
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.Vladimir Nabokov
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.Vladimir Nabokov
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.Vladimir Nabokov
For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.Vladimir Nabokov
High up in the north, in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.Vladimir Nabokov
Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.Vladimir Nabokov
She always kept up a fire of irrelevant questions, and made pert observations.Vladimir Nabokov