I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicab…

Vladimir Nabokov
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I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais! ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.378, Vintage
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