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I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brigh...more

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I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

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Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

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No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do no...more

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It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just kille...more

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As Ganin looked up at the skeletal roof in the ethereal sky he realized with merciless clarity that his affair with Mary was ended forever. It had las...more

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Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this.

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, ...more

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My darling, what a cat they have! Something perfectly stupendous. Siamese, in colour dark beige, or taupe, with chocolate paws and the tail the same. ...more

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The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted th...more

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He could swear he did not look back, could not—by any optical chance, or in any prism—have seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadf...more