Vladimir Nabokov citáty (208 citátů, strana 6)

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Vladimir Nabokov nejznámější citáty

„Sebevražda je tím nejhorším výrazem sobectví.“

Vladimir Nabokov

„Byla to láska na první pohled, na poslední pohled, na každý a kterýkoli pohled.“

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„Čím více si všímáme náhod, tím častěji k nim dochází“

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„Byla Lo, prostě Lo, každé ráno, kdy ve stoje a v jedné punčoše měřila metr padesát. Lolou byla v kalhotách. Dolly jí říkali ve škole. Jako Dolores se podepisovala. V mém objetí byla však vždycky Lolitou.“

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„Lolita je slavná, já ne.“

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„Lolita, světlo mého života, žár mých slabin. Můj hřích, má duše.“

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„Mám dojem, že příliš podléhám kouzlu her.“

Vladimir Nabokov

„… a mě napadlo- nikoli jako protest, ani jako symbol nebo něco podobného, ale prostě jako možnost nového prožitku-, že když už jsem jednou porušil všechna pravidla lidskosti, proč bych nemohl porušit pravidla silničního provozu.“

Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov: Citáty o umění

„Vynalézavost umění obsahuje mnohem více skutečné pravdy než realita života.“

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„Není vědy bez fantazie a není umění bez faktů.“

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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]

„Upřímně řečeno, odjakživa mě dráždilo samolibé přesvědčení, že zavlnění proudu vědomí, pár zemitých oplzlostí a špetka komunismu v zaneřáděném kbelíku alchymicky a automaticky stvoří ultramoderní literaturu; a budu tvrdit, dokud mě nezastřelí, že jakmile si umění zadá s politikou, neodvratně klesne na úroveň ideologické veteše.“

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„Není žádné vědy bez fantazie a žádného umění bez skutečnosti.“

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Vladimir Nabokov: Citáty o dětech

„„A tehdy jsem uslyšel melodii z hlásků hrajících si dětí. Mou palčivou bolest nezpůsobovala Lolitina nepřítomnost, ale její chybějící hlas.“ -Lolita“

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„Přemýšlím jako génius, píši jako distingovaný autor, mluvím jako dítě.“

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„Předložíte-li normálnímu muži skupinovou fotografii školaček nebo skautek a řeknete mu, aby vybral nejhezčí, nemusí bezpodmínečně ukázat na nymfičku. Člověk musí být umělec i šílenec, bezmezně melancholický tvor s bublinkou žhavého jedu ve slabinách a věčným ohněm nesmírné smyslnosti v citlivé páteři (jak se musí hrbit a skrývat!), aby podle nevyslovitelných příznaků - jemně kočkovitého tahu lícní kosti, útlých ochmýřených končetin a jiných indicií, jež mi zoufalství, stud a slzy něhy nedovolí vyjmenovat - okamžitě rozpoznal malého anděla smrti mezi obyčejnými dětmi: stojí tam, jimi nepoznán, a není si vědom své fantastické moci.“

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Kniha - Lolita (str. 7)

Vladimir Nabokov: Citáty anglicky

“My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Zdroj: Lolita

“While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Zdroj: Lolita

“Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.”

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Zdroj: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Zdroj: Lolita

“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Speak, Memory

Zdroj: Speak, Memory

“Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Zdroj: Lolita

“Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Zdroj: Lolita

“Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.”

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“Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Zdroj: Lolita

“while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,
the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.”

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“beware of ideas…”

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“I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita

Zdroj: Lolita

“Life is a message scribbled in the dark.”

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“Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle.”

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“The character I have in view when I say "smug vulgarian" is, thus, not the part-time philistine, but the total type, the genteel bourgeois, the complete universal product of triteness and mediocrity. He is the conformist, the man who conforms to his group, and he also is typified by something else: he is a pseudo-idealist, he is pseudo-compassionate, he is pseudo-wise. The fraud is the closest ally of the true philistine. All such great words as "Beauty," "Love," "Nature," "Truth," and so on become masks and dupes when the smug vulgarian employs them. … The philistine likes to impress and he likes to be impressed, in consequence of which a world of deception, of mutual cheating, is formed by him and around him.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lectures on Russian Literature

Lectures on Russian Literature (1982)

“Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.”

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As quoted in What Is the Sangha?: The Nature of Spritual Community (2001) by Sangharakshita, p. 136.

“The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lectures on Russian Literature

Lectures on Russian Literature (1982)

“Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss
Poems that take a thousand years to die
But ape the immortality of this
Red label on a little butterfly.”

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"A Discovery" (December 1941); published as "On Discovering a Butterfly" in The New Yorker (15 May 1943); also in Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (2000) Edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, p. 274.

“I think he’s crude, I think he’s medieval, and I don’t want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me. I don’t have the dreams that he discusses in his books. I don’t see umbrellas in my dreams. Or balloons.”

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On Sigmund Freud, as quoted in Sigmund Says: And Other Psychotherapists' Quotes (2006) edited by Bernard Nisenholz, p. 6 ISBN 0595396593

“I hastened to quench a thirst that had been burning a hole in the mixed metaphor of my life ever since I had fondled a quite different Dolly thirteen years earlier.”

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Look at the Harlequins! (1974).

“To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.”

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Letter to his sister Elena Sikorski (1945); in Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (2000) Edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, p. 387.

“No free man needs a God; but was I free?”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Pale Fire

Pale Fire (1962)

“Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O. K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Transparent Things

Transparent Things (1972), Ch. 24.

“You have hal…… real bad, chum.”

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Vladimir Nabokov kniha Pale Fire

Pale Fire (1962)