About Vladimir Nabokov
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.
More quotations from Vladimir Nabokov
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Don't be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upward.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
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