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  1. Stacy Schiff _ Vera

    Briefly {Vladimir Nabokov} caught the {Superman} fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.
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  2. Vladimir Nabokov _ Lolita

    One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that-well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but-well-some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope''No,' she said smiling, 'no.''It would have made all the difference,' said Humbert Humbert.Then I pulled out my automatic-I mean, this is the kind of fool thing a reader might suppose I did. It never even occurred to me to do it.
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  3. Vladimir Nabokov _ Lolita

    For some reason, I kept seeing it-it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina-a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.
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  4. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Original of Laura

    The cup-sized breasts of that twenty-four year old impatient beauty seemed a dozen years younger than she, with those pale squinty nipples and firm form.
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  5. Vladimir Nabokov _ Lolita

    Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.Age: five thousand three hundred days.Profession: none, or "starlet".Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?Why are you hiding, darling?{I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze,I cannot get out, said the starling}."
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  6. Vladimir Nabokov _ The Stories of Vladimir

    Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you with tightly shut eyes, and felt like crying. My love for you was the throbbing, welling warmth of tears. That is exactly how I imagined paradise: silence and tears, and the warm silk of your knees. This you could not comprehend.
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  7. Vladimir Nabokov _ Lolita

    I could not kill , of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
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  8. Vladimir Nabokov _ Lolita

    My little cup brims with tiddles.
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  9. Vladimir Nabokov _ Pnin

    He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
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