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“Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?”

“Some people-and I am one of them-hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.” // “rather soon they began to appreciate Pnin at his unique Pninian worth, and this despite the fact that he was more of a poltergeist than a lodger.”

“It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.”