We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.


Lolita (1955)

Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract...

We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract...

We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract...

We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract...