Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Quotes from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov:
- Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
- Words without experience are meaningless.
- We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us.
- We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
- I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
- The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation can.
- When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
- Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality - the deception was bearable.