I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books,…

Vladimir Nabokov
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I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.64, Vintage
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Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. ✨ Vladim … ▶
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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a … ▶
Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids? ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016). Lolita, p.152, Hamilton Books
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). Speak, Memory: … ▶

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.64, Vintage

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