Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962, p. 41.
Hayes was one of our most religious presidents. He was skeptical of Darwinism and new theories of man’s origin on earth.
This famous decree issued the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It called for all prisoners held in the occupied countries of Europe to be transported to Germany. Most were Jews that had already been rounded up. This was Hitler’s euphemism for the murder of almost all of the prisoners, Jews and Christians.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Russia, he wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States and beginning to write in English. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945, but he and his wife returned to Europe in 1961, settling in Montreux, Switzerland.
