Pelevin Quotes

#1. I want to find my golden joy," I said.
The baron laughed loudly. "Splendid," he said. "But what does that mean to you
your golden joy?"
"The golden joy," I replied, "is when a peculiar flight of free thought makes it possible to see the beauty of life. Am I making myself clear?

Victor Pelevin

#2. There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

Taylor Schilling

#3. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.

Victor Pelevin

#4. Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. It was shocking to realize how much of investigation was just brute-force solutions.

James S.A. Corey

#6. If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.

Markus Persson

#7. The USSR, which they'd begun to renovate and improve at
about the time when Tatarsky decided to change his profession, improved so
much that it ceased to exist (if a state is capable of entering nirvana,
that's what must have happened in this case)

Victor Pelevin

#8. IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.

Victor Pelevin

#9. I was surrounded on all sides by the indifferent torpidity of summer, somewhere there were dogs barking lazily, while the machine-gun barrel of the sun was strafing the earth in a continuous, never-ending burst of fire.

Victor Pelevin

#10. It's a miserable thing to leave behind a world which still holds secrets. I

Victor Pelevin

#11. I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

Gabourey Sidibe

#12. In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.

Victor Pelevin

#13. Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

Tom Kelley

#14. Because from the first line I can tell how many hours the mule was carrying it up his ass on the way from Colombo to Minsk. And that's nothing, I can know how many times that ass of his was ...

Victor Pelevin

#15. If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Andrew Young

#16. In the area of radical youth culture nothing sells as well as well-packaged and politically correct rebellion against a world that is ruled by political correctness and in which everything is packaged to be sold.

Victor Pelevin

#17. We're taking a ride down the Kashirksy Highway

Victor Pelevin

#18. Of course, you don't turn into a shit just because you buy a Mercedes-600. It's the other way round: the reason you can afford to buy a Mercedes-600 is that you turn into a shit.

Victor Pelevin

#19. Any seed, that fell into Russian soil, does not give the fruit sower hoped for.

Victor Pelevin

#20. There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

Victor Pelevin

#21. All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

Timothy Keller

#22. Have you no sense at all, that you would provoke me? I'm twice your size, you know, he murmured against her ear.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Bertrand Russell

#24. Gazing at the faces of the horses and the people, at this boundless stream of life raised up by the power of my will and now hurtling into nowhere across the sunset-crimson steppe, I often think: where am I in this flux? GHENGIS KHAN

Victor Pelevin

#25. In early childhood (as, perhaps, after death) a person extends in all directions at the same time, so we can say he still doesn't exist yet- the personality comes into being later, when an attachment to some particular direction appears.

Victor Pelevin

#26. But since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, and everything that my chosen path required ceased to conflict with my conscience, because my conscience was calling me out into space, and was not much interested in what was happening on earth.

Victor Pelevin

#27. The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.

Victor Pelevin

#28. Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#29. The Eskimos have thirty words for describing different kinds of snow, and modern Russian has about the same number of expressions to describe giving a bribe to a state official.

Victor Pelevin

#30. An inverted five-pointed star. The humans don't understand it correctly. They draw a goat's head into it with the horns at the top. They like to see the devil everywhere, except in the mirror and on TV.

Victor Pelevin

#31. I had a dreary, depressed feeling so deep in my soul that I was almost ready to believe I had one.

Victor Pelevin

#32. There's obviously some strange correspondence between the general outline of a life and that stream of petty events in which a person is constantly involved and regards as insignificant.

Victor Pelevin

#33. I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

Luise Rainer

#34. What are they but the voice of history multiplied by millions of televisions?

Victor Pelevin