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“Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
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“Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”
― Titus Andronicus
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”
― Titus Andronicus
“Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“It is certainly not then—not in dreams—but when one is wide awake, in moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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The blurb asks the questions about Humbert Humbert: "Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is ...more
Nabokov in Three Years
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This group will be reading Vladimir Nabokov's entire fictional oeuvre (plus his autobiography and two collections of essays) in chronological order. W ...more
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
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