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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

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“Oh, how I longed to burst through the doors and go walking through the streets, with my hands open, like weapons!”
― Marcel Béalu, The Experience of the Night

tags: frustration, hilarious, revenge, silly

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“There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.”
― Fernando Pessoa

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