Vladimir Nabokov Quotes about Imagination

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Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Vladimir Nabokov

Art, Imagination, Shadow

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life, Order, Imagination

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

Vladimir Nabokov

Past, Imagination, Trying

Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.5, Hamilton Books

Vladimir Nabokov Quotes about Imagination

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