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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes about Reality

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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Vladimir Nabokov
Reality, Play, World
Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Look at the Harlequins!”, Penguin UK

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

Vladimir Nabokov
Reality, Deny, Knows
Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Vladimir Nabokov
Summer, Memories, Reality
Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.57, Penguin UK

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Vladimir Nabokov
Stars, Reality, Flying

Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.

Vladimir Nabokov
Dream, Reality, Men
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). “Five novels”

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Vladimir Nabokov
Reality, Men, Sight
Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.402, Vintage

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