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“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.”

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Lord Byron, born on January 22, 1788, and died on April 19, 1824, was a prominent English Romantic poet. His poetry is characterized by its strong personality and passion, and has had a profound impact on literature. more

“When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.”

Trying Ends Action Past Causes Imagination My Own Complexes Surrender Alternatives Motive Faculty Routes Craving Boundless My Past Forks Analytics Retrospective

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.”

Looks Seems Used Morning Car Youth Paper Train Storm Snow Observation Pale Passengers Scrap Tissues Repetitive Fly Away Snow Storms Tissue Paper

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!”

World Play Reality Insubordination

Book:Look at the Harlequins!

Source: Look at the Harlequins!

“Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.”

Mind States State Of Mind Complacency Shattered Retrospective

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.”

Stills Hell Sky Color Flames Paradise

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.”

Stills Memories Dark Infinite Dresses Studios Occasions Remembered Remembrance Fifth Avenues Festive

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.”

Way Humans Persons Suffering Difficult Taste Dignity Complexes Admire Tragic Human Dignity Monotonous Dealings Wallowing Misadventure

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

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