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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
«The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
above, abyss, abysses, brief, common sense, crack, cradle, cradled, cradles, darkness, eternities, existence, From the Cradle, rocks, tells
«Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
associated, revives, reviving, smell
«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.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
blank, clamoring, ink, miraculous, pages
«Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
involves, irrational, mysteries, perceived, rational