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Hands Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
- And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from…
- - 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…
- His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the brow of gravity,…
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- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
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