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And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

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I am looking at him, I am witnessing a unique physiological phenomenon: John Shade perceiving and transforming the world, taking it in and taking it a...more

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The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that...more

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled......more

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

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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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And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference b

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The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writ...more

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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literatur...more

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And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference between, the kind Which goes on solely in the poet’s mind,A testing of perf...more

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The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, ...more

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A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could pick ...more

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Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.