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Ah ! il faut plaindre ceux qui n’ont point entendu Christine Daaé dans ce rôle de Juliette, qui n’ont point connu sa grâce naïve, qui n’ont point tressailli aux accents de sa voix séraphique, qui n’ont point senti s’envoler leur âme avec
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“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ...I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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