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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
― The Art of The Return of the King
― The Art of The Return of the King
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
― Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
“La forma artística esta como asida al pensamiento, nace con él, lo encarna y le da propia y característica expresión.”
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“¡Ah!, ignoran ellos que conviene a las almas superiores descender de tiempo en tiempo de su elevada región: que necesitan pequeñeces aquellos espíritus inmensos a quienes no satisface todo lo más grande que el mundo y la vida pueden presentarle. Si se hacen frívolos y ligeros por intervalos, es porque sienten la necesidad de respetar sus grandes facultades y temen ser devorados por ellas.”
― Sab
― Sab
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