Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Austrian playwright and novelist

Elfriede Jelinek (German pronunciation: [ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born October 20, 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."

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Native Name: Elfriede Jelineková

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Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.

Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.

The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.

Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner.