Vladimir Nabokov Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977
Birthday: April 22
Death: July 2
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).
source: Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.66, Vintage
topic: Memories, Eye, Dark, Long Lashes, Replica
