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Pero hacia donde vaya llevaré tu mirada y hacia donde camines llevarás mi dolor.
“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
“They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.”
― Dancer from the Dance
― Dancer from the Dance
“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”
― Aspects of the Novel
― Aspects of the Novel
“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
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“The greatest drug of all, my dear, was not one of those pills in so many colors that you took over the years, was not the opium, the hash you smoked in houses at the beach, or the speed or smack you shot up in Sutherland's apartment, no, it wasn't any of these. It was the city, darling, it was the city, the city itself. And do you see why I had to leave? As Santayana said, dear, artists are unhappy because they are not interested in happiness; they live for beauty. God, was that steaming, loathsome city beautiful!!! And why finally no human lover was possible, because I was in love with all men, with the city itself.”
― Dancer from the Dance
― Dancer from the Dance
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