I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray’s assertion, Lolita has no...

Do you know what is truly magnificent? One tear, which is falling down from an authentic sensitive person’s eye. Down the cheek and adorns the floor.

Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.