Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
You lose your immortality when you lose your memory. - Vladimir Nabokov
You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. - Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades o… - Vladimir Nabokov
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades o…
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. - Vladimir Nabokov
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
The future is but the obsolete in reverse. - Vladimir Nabokov
The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards. - Vladimir Nabokov
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things. - Vladimir Nabokov
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. - Vladimir Nabokov
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe … - Vladimir Nabokov
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe …
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