Nabokov
“You can get nearer and nearer … to reality, but you never get near enough because reality is an infinite succession of steps, levels of perception, false bottoms, and hence unquenchable, unattainable. You can know more and more about one thing but you can never know everything about one thing.”
-- Vladimir Nabokov
[Source: Ellen Pifer, “Introduction” in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita: A Casebook ed. by Ellen Pifer]
-- Vladimir Nabokov
[Source: Ellen Pifer, “Introduction” in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita: A Casebook ed. by Ellen Pifer]