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Young Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
- Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded…
- No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I…
- I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female…
- My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown…
- My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?
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