for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. ✨ Vl…

Vladimir Nabokov
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for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.56, Vintage
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2010). Lolita, p.313, Vintage
Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016 … ▶
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016). Lolita, p.171, Hamilton Books
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). Strong opinions, McGraw-Hi … ▶

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.56, Vintage

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