Top 37 Victor Pelevin Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. Dwell in possibility

Emily Dickinson

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#6. Knowing constancy is enlightenment.

Lao-Tzu

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#7. 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

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#8. The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Edgar Friedenberg

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#9. The judgment day in your journey of appraising divine consciousness is the level of Truth Consciousness you achieve and become Soul-Realised to Enter Heaven.

Vishal Chipkar

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#10. 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

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. You can tell I don't like this book, because I drew in it. And that's better than anything else that's in this book.

Dan Bergstein

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#16. 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.

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

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

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#19. When you go into a starring position and you're carrying a movie, it's important that people like it. So I only do things that I can connect with in some sort of way, or that I can identify with.

Mark Wahlberg

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#20. 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.

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#21. I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way 'Community' means something to people. That's more powerful than ratings.

Gillian Jacobs

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#22. Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

Ben Bradlee

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#23. I can't think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.

Jennifer Niven

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#24. No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

Edward Victor Appleton

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#25. 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)

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

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#27. What would you do if money was no object?

Alan Watts

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#28. David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Tina Weymouth

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#29. 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

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#30. 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?

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#31. 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.

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#32. Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].

Dada Bhagwan

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#33. Dear Son,
People with narrow visions who are afraid of the future are unnecessary weights in your life
Love Daddy

Sameh Elsayed

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#34. 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 ...

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#35. 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.

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#36. A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."
- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title)

G.R. Matthews

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

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