Vladimir Nabokov nejznámější citáty
Vladimir Nabokov: Citáty o umění
„Není vědy bez fantazie a není umění bez faktů.“
Zdroj: [Herschbach, Dudley R., Imaginární zahrady s reálnými ropuchami, vesmir.cz, 1998, 2011-02-05, http://www.vesmir.cz/clanek/imaginarni-zahrady-s-realnymi-ropuchami]
Vladimir Nabokov: Citáty o dětech
Kniha - Lolita (str. 7)
Vladimir Nabokov: Citáty anglicky
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Zdroj: Pale Fire (1962)
Zdroj: Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
Kontext: To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
Interview with Herbert Gold, The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 4th series (1977), p. 107 ISBN 0-140-04543-0
Zdroj: Letters to Vera
“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”
Zdroj: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“All religions are based on obsolete terminology.”
Zdroj: Pale Fire
“do what only a true artist can do… pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation”
Zdroj: Pale Fire
“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Zdroj: Lolita
“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”
Zdroj: Lolita