Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Babies

Quotes about: Babies

• I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baby, Kissing, Koalas

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.94, Penguin UK

• The tiny madman in his padded cell.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baby, Cells, Tiny

  1955 Humbert Humbert's description of an embryo. Lolita, ch.11.

• I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baby, Art, Husband

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