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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes: Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce!…

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

("Lolita")

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And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.
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