Elfriede Jelinek: Trending quotes (page 3)

“When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.”

“Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.”

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

“Don’t start anything you can’t finish.”

“There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.”

“Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.”

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

“There are photographs under the pistol, showing his mother genitals. These genitals make no perceptible impression on him, though it was through them that he first entered the world.”

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