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Hand Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?…
- He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even…
- ...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of…
- I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you…
- With a condescending grin he offered his hand, hardly bothering to sit up. I grasped it only because it provided mewith the curious sensation of…
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