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“He would remove his glasses to beam at the past while massaging the lenses of the present.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“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.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“Love is an innocent passion. How is it that, for me, it's turned into a source of misery and immortality?”
― Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut

“Most of the great and wealthy are fools, that's obvious to anyone who knows a bit about life, and what could be fairer than that? After all, if they had wit as well as wealth, they'd be far too well off and the rest of mankind far too wretched.”
― Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut