"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