Vladimir Nabokov quotes

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Humbert Humbert. What a thrillingly different name.
Darling, you know, I have a most ambitious fantasy.
No, I'm Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?
Isn't it great to have a lovely, tall, pretty, little, small daughter like that? It's really wonderful.
The locomotive, working rapidly with its elbows, hurried through a pine forest, then--with relief--among fields.
Trees appeared in groups and singly, revolving coolly and blandly, displaying the latest fashions. The blue dampness of a ravine. ...
Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resem ...
The smooth sizzle of a passing motorcar.
With a condescending grin he offered his hand, hardly bothering to sit up. I grasped it only because it provided me with the curio ...
Although I had been scribbling in English all my literary life in the margin, so to say, of my Russian writings, [Despair] was my ...
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