Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
Vladimir NabokovI should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.
Vladimir NabokovNothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir NabokovA cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.
Vladimir Nabokov