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Look at the Harlequins! QUOTES

Look at the Harlequins! QUOTES

1 " We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , Look at the Harlequins!

2 " Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , Look at the Harlequins!

3 " Look at the harlequins! [...] All around you. Trees are harlequins, words are harlequins. So are situations and sums. Put two things together—jokes, images—and you get a triple harlequin. Come on! Play! Invent the world! Invent reality! "

― Vladimir Nabokov , Look at the Harlequins!

4 " Yet I have known madness not only in the guise of an evil shadow. I have seen it also as a flash of delight so rich and shattering that the very absence of an immediate object on which it might settle was to me a form of escape. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , Look at the Harlequins!