Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American author who wrote the novel "Pnin." The novel follows the life of Professor Timofey Pnin, a Russian émigré and lecturer of Russian at an American college. Nabokov is known for his distinctive writing style and themes of exile and identity.
A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin