Lolita by Nabokov
Ref: Vladimir Nabokov (1955). Lolita. France.
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Summary
The fictional account of Humbert Humphry, who is desperately trying to make sense of his obscene love for Lolita Haze, an underage child. Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
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Misc Quotes
“It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around: sex is but the ancilla of art.”
“A college girl- that horror of horrors.”
“I derived some fun from that nuptial night and had the idiot in hysterics by sunrise.”
“The fog of all lust had been swept away leaving nothing but this dreadful lucidity.”
“Mirage and Reality merge in love.”
“That frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh.”
“…one of those furious harangues of hers where entreaty and insult, self-assertion and double talk, vicious vulgarity and childish despair, were interwoven in an exasperating semblance of logic.”
“She desired me to resuscitate all my loves so that she might make me insult them, and trample upon them, and revoke them apostately and totally, thus destroying my past.”
“Whether or not the realization of a lifelong dream had surpassed all expectation, it had, in a sense, overshot its mark - and plunged into a nightmare.”
“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”
“...the continuous risk and dread that ran through my bliss.”
“Words without experience are meaningless.”
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