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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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A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...more

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

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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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...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....

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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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But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to e...more

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

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Ink, a Drug.

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She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

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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