Quotations from
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Don't be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upward.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.