Vladimir Nabokov Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977
Birthday: April 22
Death: July 2
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
source: Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.561, Vintage
topic: Death, Night, Thinking, Alpine
