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.
The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
Let us not burrow and delve beneath a word for a larva or a corpse.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
Pity is a kind of praise; and when we pity, we praise.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire