Pale Fire
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"Pale Fire" Quotes

By Vladimir Nabokov

fiction | 272 pages | Published in 2012

ISBN_13: 9780141912868
ISBN_10: 0141912863

Quotes

The dead die hard, they are trespassers on the beyond, they must take the place as powerful and relentless as despite on the highest mountain, as wave succeeding wave up a long, blind swineherd's work.

Vladimir Nabokov

The murderer is with us—on the train now.

Vladimir Nabokov

The snow is water, as life is water... I am water in another form.

Vladimir Nabokov

To love reality is to love silence.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Vladimir Nabokov

No memory is genuine. I have made a collection of false memories.

Vladimir Nabokov

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Vladimir Nabokov

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

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I exist because I think and I cannot stop thinking.

Vladimir Nabokov

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.

Vladimir Nabokov