Elfriede Jelinek - Life Quotes

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I don't know if it's enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different.

Elfriede Jelinek

Rainer [protagonist in the novel], who is reading The Outsider by Camus, says he would like to put the hostility of the world behind him. Once your hope for something better is taken from you, then at last you have the present all in your hand. Then you yourself are reality. Others are extras. When Rainer contemplated san evening he says that evening is melancholy ceasefire where all life has come to and end.

Elfriede Jelinek

Murder and assault are not lunacy; they are the logical conclusions if you live a life without an assured financial foundation.

Elfriede Jelinek

It is not enough... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

Elfriede Jelinek