Elfriede Jelinek - Women as Lovers (1975)

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

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

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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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You have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

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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.

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