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“At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”

“What I had madly possessed was not she, but my own creation, another, fanciful Lolita - perhaps, more real than Lolita; overlapping, encasing her; floating between me and her, and having no will, no consciousness - indeed, no life of her own.
The child knew nothing. I had done nothing to her.” The contradictions in this novel are too great, I fear

The thing is that this is a superb novel

i know H.H is playing the victim right now but i do not feel one ounce of sympathy toward him and i don’t get how people can