101 books
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6 voters
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I’ll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.
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Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things
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― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
