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It is only after losing her at last, and for good, that Humbert is able to deepen his tenderness for Lolita “this Lolita, my Lolita,” as he repeatedly says into remorse for the sin of “safely solipsizing” her—the sin of using her, borrowing “her brown limbs in the seculsion of the five-dollar room,” to satisfy his passion.
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It is only after losing her at last, and for good, that Humbert is able to deepen his tenderness for Lolita “this Lolita, my Lolita,” as he repeatedly says into remorse for the sin of “safely solipsizing” her—the sin of using her, borrowing “her brown limbs in the seculsion of the five-dollar room,” to satisfy his passion.
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And that is what "Lolita" is basically about, the crime of solipsizing another person ` s life.
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