Elfriede Jelinek: Likeness

Elfriede Jelinek is Austrian writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth.”

Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher

Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter.
P 71
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“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.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“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 book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 37
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)