Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Vladimir Nabokov

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov