Book:    Lolita
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I had always thought that wringing one's hands was a fictional gesture - the obscure outcome, perhaps, of some medieval ritual; but as I took to the woods, for a spell of despair and desperate meditation, this was the gesture {"look, Lord, at these chains!"} that would have come nearest to the mute expression of my mood.

( Vladimir Nabokov )
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