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In fact, I would have the reader see "nine" and "fourteen" as the boundaries--the mirrory beaches and rosy rocks--of an enchanted island haunted by those nymphets of mine and surrounded by a vast, misty sea.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
It will be marked that I substitute time terms for spatial ones.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as "nymphets."
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Now I wish to introduce the following idea.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Now and then I took advantage of the acquaintances I had formed among social workers and psychotherapists to visit in their company various institutions, such as orphanages and reform schools, where pale pubescent girls with matted eyelashes could be stared at in perfect impunity remindful of that granted one in dreams.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Then a school for boys employed me for a couple of winters.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I found a job--teaching English to a group of adults in Auteuil.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I launched upon an "Histoire abregèe de la poèsie anglaise" for a prominent publishing firm, and then started to compile that manual of French literature for English-speaking students (with comparisons drawn from English writers) which was to occupy me throughout the forties--and the last volume of which was almost ready for press by the time of my arrest.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
A paper of mine entitled "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey" was chuckled over by the six or seven scholars who read it.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I composed pastiches: ...Fräulen von Kulp may turn, her hand upon the door; I will not follow her. Nor Fresca. Nor that Gull.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I published tortuous essays in obscure journals.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I discussed Soviet movies with expatriates.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Paris suited me.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
At first, I planned to take a degree in psychiatry and many manquè talents do; but I was even more manquè than that; a peculiar exhaustion, I am so oppressed, doctor, set in; and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
My studies were meticulous and intense, although not particularly fruitful.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
While a college student, in London and Paris, paid ladies sufficed me.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita