There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Moderation in Sobriety
M
Dancing Towards Love
D
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Complacency Shattered
C
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Knowledge: An Island
K
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Imagination’s Memory Link
I
Imagination is a form of memory.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Time: The Perfect Author
T
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Pain’s Invisible Whip
P
Pain is a puzzling master; one feels the caress, but nobody sees the whip.
Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
History’s Fictional Facade
H
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
Embracing Facts as Truths
E
A fact is not a truth until you love it.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
Unwelcome Truth Realities
U
The truth is not always what we want to hear.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker