"And then the remorse, the poignant sweetness of sobbing atonement, grovelling love, the hopelessness of sensual reconciliation. In the velvet night, at Mirana Motel (Mirana!) I kissed the yellowish soles of her long-toed feet, I immolated myself... But it was all of no avail. Both doomed were we. And soon I was to enter a new cycle of persecution. " Nabokov
This is my favorite quote from Lolita. Pretty much sums up the whole of the novel.
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