Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
More from Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.
Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” · From the poem that opens the novel; the next line says he does not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.” · Lolita (1955), last paragraph
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