Vladimir Nabokov citáty a výroky
Vladimir Nabokov: Citáty v angličtine
Vladimir Nabokov kniha The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Zdroj: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov kniha Speak, Memory
Zdroj: Speak, Memory
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Vladimir Nabokov kniha Pale Fire
Zdroj: Pale Fire (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov kniha Strong Opinions
Zdroj: Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
Kontext: To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Vladimir Nabokov kniha Bend Sinister
Zdroj: Bend Sinister
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
Interview with Herbert Gold, The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 4th series (1977), p. 107 ISBN 0-140-04543-0
Zdroj: Letters to Vera
“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”
Zdroj: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Vladimir Nabokov kniha Lolita
Zdroj: Lolita
