Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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All religions are based on obsolete terminology. — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfini — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference b — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Dear Jesus, do something. — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
The lost glove is happy. — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
IphWas a larvorium and a violet:A grave in Reason's early spring. And yetIt missed the gist of the whole thing; it misse — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Of the not very many ways known of shedding one's body, falling, falling, falling is the supreme method, but you have to — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
But soon the poltergeist ran out of ideas in connection with Aunt Maud and became, as it were, more eclectic. All the ba — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
On such sunny, sad mornings I always feel in my bones that there is a chance yet of my not being excluded from Heaven, a — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf accidents and possibilit — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire