Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Curiosity

Quotes about: Curiosity

• Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Curiosity, Form, Insubordination

  "Reading Lolita in Tehran". Book by Azar Nafisi, 2003.

• There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Kindness, Soul

• The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Ignorance, Self, Order

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.275, Vintage

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