“The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“I am in the ocean. I am on the shore. I am trying to remember or to see.
The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“I am looking at him, I am witnessing a unique physiological phenomenon: John Shade perceiving and transforming the world, taking it in and taking it apart, recombining its elements in the very process of storing them up so as to produce at some unspecified date an organic miracle, a fusion of image and music, a line of verse.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“Why not leave their private sorrows to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?”
― Pnin
― Pnin
“When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
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