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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Vladimir Nabokov
Writing, Blank Mind, Feelings
Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

Vladimir Nabokov
Mean, Feelings, Mind

She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.

Vladimir Nabokov
Moving, Soul, Feelings

I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.

Vladimir Nabokov
Kissing, Loving You, Feelings
Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.92, Penguin UK

The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.

Vladimir Nabokov
Country, Law, Feelings

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known . . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Nabokov
Moon, Space, Feelings
N.Y. Times, 21 July 1969

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