I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as 'bad heart' always to him refer,And 'cancer of the pancreas' to her.
Weitere Zitate von Vladimir Nabokov
Zum Autor"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for."
"Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight."
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."