Vladimir Nabokov: 10 quotes on his birthday

10 quotes on author Vladimir Nabokov's 113th birthday.

6. Expanse of consciousness

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Nabokov on the balcony of his hotel at the Montreux Palace in Switzerland, 1965.

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! (Speak, Memory)

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