Elfriede Jelinek citations (50 citations)

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Elfriede Jelinek: Citations en anglais

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 23
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“Vice is basically the love of failure.”

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Elfriede Jelinek

Source: Pianolærerinnen

“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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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 44
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“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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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 27
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“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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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

60
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.”

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Elfriede Jelinek

p 2
Women As Lovers (1994)

“A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

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

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 30
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“The world would be a lot better off if it paid more attention to its philosophers and artists than to its own tiny egotistic spirit, which lacks an overview. People should place their belief in Beethoven and Socrates.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 40
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.”

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Elfriede Jelinek

P 34
Women As Lovers (1994)

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 24
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 24
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“We are monsters, even if we disguise ourselves as ordinary people. We are the children of ordinary people but we are not content with that. Inwardly we are consumed with wickedness, outwardly we are grammar school pupils.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Source: Wonderful, Wonderful Times

“I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 65
The Piano Teacher (1988)

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 48
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“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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Elfriede Jelinek

P 26
Women As Lovers (1994)

“sewing in itself is already in the women's blood.”

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p 3
Women As Lovers (1994)

“The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 118
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

123
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“The most powerful urge known to Man is the urge to be free of manual labour. Any means that accomplishes that end is fine. Some people erroneously imagine that they have a birthright to non-manual work.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

60
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“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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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

109
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“Death the Laveller annihilates all distinctions.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

250
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 5
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

p 7
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 29
The Piano Teacher (1988)

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

P 179
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“nothing comes of nothing after all.”

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Elfriede Jelinek

p 1
Women As Lovers (1994)

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

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Elfriede Jelinek livre The Piano Teacher

P 69
The Piano Teacher (1988)

“Stifter tells us that people are not free, that they are slaves to the laws of Nature. So you have to commit violent deeds (if you don’t have anyone to do other kinds of deeds with), actions that ordinary people would call crimes but which we define as the norm, though of course it is our norm and no that of the rest.”

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Elfriede Jelinek livre Wonderful, Wonderful Times

55
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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