Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

But Nobody Yet Had Been Able To Dig Down To What Was Most Captivating About Her: This Was The Mysterious Ability Of Her Soul To Apprehend In Life Only That Which Had Once Attracted And Tormented Her In Childhood, The Time When The Soul's Instinct Is Infallible; To Seek Out The Amusing And The Touching: To Feel Constantly An Intolerable, Tender Pity For The Creature Whose Life Is Helpless And Unhappy; To Feel Across Hundreds Of Miles That Somewhere In Sicily A Thin-legged Little Donkey With A Shaggy Belly Is Being Brutally Beaten. Whenever She Did Come Across A Creature That Was Being Hurt, She Experienced A Kind Of Legendary Eclipse - When Inexplicable Night Comes Down And Ash Flies And Blood Appears On The Walls - And It Seemed That If At Once, At Once, She Did Not Help, Did Not Cut Short Another's Torture (the Existence Of Which It Was Absolutely Impossible To Explain In A World So Conducive To Happiness), Her Heart Would Not Stand It, And She Would Die.

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