Vladimir Nabokov Quotes: I shall be dumped where the weed decays,…

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

("Lolita")

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There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
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I felt my life needed a shake-up.
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Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
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My little cup brims with tiddles.
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This, to use an American term in which discovery, retribution, torture, death, eternity appear in the shape of a singularly repulsive nutshell, was it.
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Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
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