In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the narrator, Humbert Humbert, reminisces, "At first, I planned to take a degree in psychiatry as many manqué talents do; but I was even more manqué than that .
Humbert Humbert from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita recalls, "At first, he thought about studying psychiatry like many ambitious people do; but he was even more disappointed than that ."