Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

There, Tam, La-bas, The Gaze Of Men Glows With Inimitable Understanding; There The Freaks That Are Tortured Here Walk Unmolested; There Time Takes Shape According To One's Pleasure, Like A Figured Rug Whose Folds Can Be Gathered In Such A Way That Two Designs Will Meet - And The Rug Is Once Again Smoothed Out, And You Live On, Or Else Superimpose The Next Image On The Last, Endlessly, Endlessly, With The Leisurely Concentration Of A Woman Selecting A Belt To Go With Her Dress - Now She Glides In My Direction, Rhythmically Butting The Velvet With Her Knees, Comprehending Everything And Comprehensible To Me ... There, There Are The Original Of Those Gardens Where We Used To Roam And Hide In This World; There Everything Strikes One By Its Bewitching Evidence, By The Simplicity Of Perfect Good; There Everything Pleases One's Soul, Everything Is Filled With The Kind Of Fun That Children Know; There Shines The Mirror That Now And Then Sends A Chance Reflection Here ...

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