"She would try to relieve the pain of……" — Vladimir Nabokov

She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly… - Vladimir Nabokov

"She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion."

— Vladimir Nabokov

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