Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, t…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets. ✨ Lolita pt. 1, ch. 5 (1955)
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