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“After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. The middling level has no terrors, no anxieties. They huddle together, indulging in the illusion of warmth. If you’re alone with nothing, and certainly not yourself. And how content they are with that state of affairs!”

Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher

P 66
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“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.”

Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher

P159
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“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.”

Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher

P 107
The Piano Teacher (1988)

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

Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher (1988)

“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.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

P 219
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher

P 124
The Piano Teacher (1988)

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

Elfriede Jelinek

P 8
Women As Lovers (1994)

“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.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

248
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

62
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)