Elfriede Jelinek Short Quotes

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Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.

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A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth.

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Money is unimportant, but it is reassuring to have it.

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Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature.

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Often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.

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In this new era, what sets you free is knowledge, not work.

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The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.

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Just keep following my tears, and the brook will take you in.

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Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner.

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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

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There are no holidays for art; and that's just fine with the artist.

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Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

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Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.

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Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

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If someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.

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Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions.

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Intellectuals will still go on emphasizing free will even when they've got nothing left to eat.

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In the case of a writer like Musil writing is often a graceful act, like a silvery fish leaping.

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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.

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The rules of art do not exist, because what makes art art is the fact that it obeys no rules at all.

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The poet is a king in his realm. His is empire of imagination, in which there are unlimited mansions.

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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

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First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk.

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After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

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Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.

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Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

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Weak are defeated by the strong in the world of Nature. A reed by the north wind, for instance. And silence by the forest.

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

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Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.

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In the old days people had no time to harm the environment because they were busy doing harm to themselves, in the War, for instance.

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