Author of quotes: Victor Pelevin. Page 2

“Understand” essentially meant “remember.”

In the morning the dollar was one hundred thirty-seven...

They want us to be the bottom - we will become. But they will only fall through that bottom straight into hell.

Perhaps, thought Sasaki-san, Slavic thievery is the best feature of these peoples. At least, from the point of view of the real interests of the world community.

The highest art was again losing to the booth. As always.

The economic effect is achieved by speeding up metalwork work.

She smiled the way a Soviet person was taught in the sixties - with a hint that everything would work out...

For social harmony, it is important not only to give people hope. Even more important in front of everyone is to deprive someone of it.

The curator has known for many, many years that the secret of happiness lies precisely in not picking what is happening with doubts, but in calmly enjoying it.

But after all, this Hitler, if you look at it, only screwed up with the fact that he lost the war. Because if he won it - for real, globally - those whom he killed would become guilty.

I just thought, maybe our generation, which chose Pepsi <...> Maybe all of us together are this dog with five paws? And now we, so to speak, are advancing?

Engineering and technical languages deal with the material from which the object is made, but the artist speaks to the viewer in the language of emotions. When the viewer finds out that some people gave this little fagot fifteen million pounds to stretch a leatherette *** over an abandoned football field, he remembers what he does in life and how much he is paid for it, then looks at the photo this little queer in horn-rimmed glasses and a cheerful jacket, and feels confusion and bewilderment, turning into a feeling that the German philosopher Martin Heidegger called "abandonment" (Geworfenheit).

Take a fifty year old newspaper and read it. Curly silly letters, insignificant ambitions of the dead, who do not yet know that they are dead ... All this, the present, which you care so much about, is no different from what was seething in the minds then - except that the order of words in the headings has changed. Come to your senses!

Life, in fact, is that period of time when you can still change at will. Death is when you begin to change your own way.