“My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.”

—  Vladimir Nabokov, book Lolita

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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