Vladimir Nabokov Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977
Birthday: April 22
Death: July 2
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
topic: Art, Kindness, Soul, Didactic
