Author of quotes: Victor Pelevin

I differ from most people in only one thing - they don’t have everything at home, but I have no one there at all.

For five centuries now we have been living from confiscation to mobilization, and compassionate people from their estates recommend having more children, because someone needs to be enlisted in the cavalry.

But life is inexorable: just like that, its page turned everyday.

Those without privilege hate those who have it.

Dishonest art stinks.

In America, rappers were mainly blacks, and they used the “N-word” to identify themselves. Only blacks were allowed to use it. And in Russia, rappers were Jews (which led to interesting mutations of the genre, turning criminal bravado into nervous confession), and they used the “F-word,” which only they could use with impunity. In general, an archaic system of cross-taboo self-identifications, a sweetish smell of decay and the aroma of centuries.

Death is the worst thing that can happen to us, for it is our main sorrow, and at the same time the best, since it is also the end of all sorrows.

I consider the term “infogypsies” racist and abusive.

You don't have to give up your life to do this. To do this, you don't need to do anything at all. Just let things happen. It will happen without your permission.

I'm not talking about politics or gender reform at all. I'm talking about the present moment in time. Unhappiness is always made out of a struggle for the current second to be something different. Not as it is.

Ethics as freshness. There is only one of them. The first one is also the last one.

Art is not what and why, but how and for how much.

on a subconscious level, people have been doing this since the times of ancient Rome and especially Byzantium, where the entire political struggle was built around races at the hippodrome. Therefore, international professional sports are exactly the same abomination as torture, concentration camps, /V-word/, crap entertainment and corporate media. I wouldn’t even begin to single out the parts: it’s all a single cultural set, where different aspects support each other.

It is harmful to lie down under a subpoena. Fighting it is even more harmful. The skill of the artist is to use it correctly.