“When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale.” WorldCultureYouthSellsRageRadicalPolitically CorrectYouth Culture Author:Victor Pelevin
“How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing.” ThinkingWorldMindMeanDoeExistenceMorningImpossibleSickWake UpInstrumentsOur WorldWakingUsualReplacementsNon Existence Author:Victor Pelevin
“I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.” WorldNeedsMomentsBeautifulTurnsConsciousnessWindowEdgesSecondsUsualClosestSomething BeautifulSwarmsLocomotives Author:Victor Pelevin
“Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.” IfsWorldSaidProblemNamesDon't ChangeTime Passes Book:The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel Source: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel