Elfriede Jelinek said this quote

“ Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists. ”

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Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.

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The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.

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No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

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She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

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