My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita insi…

Vladimir Nabokov
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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016). Lolita, p.90, Hamilton Books
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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2016). Lolita, p.90, Hamilton Books

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