Vladimir Nabokov
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My Lolita remarked: You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.377, Vintage

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