Carsten Jensen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

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