Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• ...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Years, Land, House

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). “Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle”, McGraw-Hill Companies

• Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Country, Years

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.5, Hamilton Books

• There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Glasses, Two, House

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.76, Vintage

• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Years, Squad

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