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Vladimir Nabokov

"The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty."

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"The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty."

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"One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that-well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but-well-some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope''No,' she said smiling, 'no.''It would have made all the difference,' said Humbert Humbert.Then I pulled out my automatic-I mean, this is the kind of fool thing a reader might suppose I did. It never even occurred to me to do it."
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