"It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow."

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Source : Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (1994). “Women as Lovers”, p.32, Profile Books

Elfriede Jelinek

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“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”
“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”
“Work, work, work. I like to keep myself busy. I start to get a little stir-crazy during downtime. That's when I turn to working out - running, hitting the gym, etc.”
“Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.”
“It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.”
“But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.”
“How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.”
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.”

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