Vladimir Nabokov

"We are all living in a labyrinth of our own creation."

"The only true luxury is time."

"Passion without precision is mere sentimentality."

"A novel is a mirror walking down a long corridor."

"The mind can be liberated through the imagination."

"We are the sum of our memories, not our achievements."

"Language is the only tool we have to bridge the gap between souls."

"Beauty is the rarest and most precious thing in the universe."

"The artist's job is to make the ordinary seem extraordinary."

"Life without passion is merely existence."

"Truth is often stranger and more beautiful than fiction."

"Every word carries within it a thousand histories."

"We are all addicted to the stories we tell ourselves."

"The purpose of art is to reveal what is hidden."

"In every life, there is a moment when everything changes."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"A writer's loyalty is to the truth as he sees it."

"We spend our lives running from our true selves."

"Art is the conversation between the artist and eternity."

"The most important discovery is the discovery of oneself."

"Life is a series of small miracles, if we know how to see them."

"Language is the mirror of the mind."

"The greatest works of art are often misunderstood."

"We are all haunted by the lives we did not live."

"Beauty is the only truth that matters."