"Lolita"

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This paper shows that reading the passages of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is a meditation on love because the topic is on every page, either in the forefront or lying hidden just below the surface, ready to appear at the slightest observance. The paper argues that it would be impossible to read the novel and not see the love within. This does not mean that the reader understands or shares Humbert Humbert's longings and desires. They may be repulsed by the same, but the novel invokes a meditation on love, and from it we can discern the definitions and qualities (or lack thereof) that constitute love.

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"Yet, when she tells him that she will not come to live with him, he leaves. Possibly broken-hearted, obviously mentally unstable, he abandons the quest. This is one of the definitions of true love. Love regardless of circumstances, or situations, or physical form. But what is lost upon Humbert is that he is the cause of Lolita's current situation. So even when he shows his love is unconditional, he still misses the role his possessive love has played in destroying Lolita's life."

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