All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.
“He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.”
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“His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence.”
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.”
“We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”
“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deepe...”
“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”