Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
("Lolita")
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
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All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
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Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
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