Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

If I Dwell At Some Length On The Tremors And Gropings Of That Distant Night, It Is Because I Insist Upon Proving That I Am Not, And Never Was, And Never Could Have Been, A Brutal Scoundrel. The Gentle And Dreamy Regions Through Which I Crept Were The Patrimonies Of Poets-not Crime's Prowling Ground. Had I Reached My Goal, My Ecstasy Would Have Been All Softness, A Case Of Internal Combustion Of Which She Would Hardly Have Felt The Heat, Even If She Were Wide Awake. But I Still Hoped She Might Gradually Be Engulfed In A Completeness Of Stupor That Would Allow Me To Taste More Than A Glimmer Of Her.

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