Daisy Stockwell
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“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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