Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 April 1899
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
mad mind balanced
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
mind complacency shattered
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
simple mind way
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
mind nuisance baths
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.
art humanity mind
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.
heart speak-english mind
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
depression mind world
... my mind lay limp in an empty world.
mind should
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
character writing mind
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
mean feelings mind
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
perfect mind stranger
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
writing blank-mind feelings
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
loneliness mind illness
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
stars angel mind
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.