Vladimir Nabokov Berühmte Zitate
Vladimir Nabokov: Zitate auf Englisch
Vladimir Nabokov buch The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Quelle: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov buch Speak, Memory
Quelle: Speak, Memory
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Vladimir Nabokov buch Pale Fire
Quelle: Pale Fire (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov buch Strong Opinions
Quelle: 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.
Vladimir Nabokov buch Bend Sinister
Quelle: Bend Sinister
“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
Quelle: Letters to Vera
“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”
Quelle: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Vladimir Nabokov buch Lolita
Quelle: Lolita
