Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons. ✨ Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov
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Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons. ✨ Lolita.
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There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only in … ▶
I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.375, Vintage
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that mov … ▶
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). The Luzhin Defense, p.7, Penguin UK

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