Quotes by Nabokov, Vladimir

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our ex >>

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, t >>

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of >>

Quotations about Moon

The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in >>

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the pani >>

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! >>

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Nabokov, Vladimir