Vladimir Nabokov Is Quotations

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.