Quotes from Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

You have to be an artist and a madman...

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy

Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.