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There's a scientific hypothes...

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.

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I am closest of all to happin...

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’.

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There are no philosophical pr...

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

When it comes to radical yout...

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.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

IsoldA: The only way to be al...

IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

Reading is human contact, and...

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein once said...

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.

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How can non-existence get sic...

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.

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In order for him to believe s...

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

America is fascist Germany run...

America is fascist Germany run by Jews.

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Indeed, many millionaires go i...

Indeed, many millionaires go in a dash and drive cheap cars - but to afford this, you must be a millionaire. A beggar in such a situation would suffer inexpressibly from cognitive dissonance, so many poor people tend to dress expensively and well for the last money.

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Man considers himself to be Go...

Man considers himself to be God, and he is right, because God is in him. Considers himself a pig - and again right, because there is a pig in him too. But a person is very mistaken when he takes his inner pig for God.

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Do not bother yourself with so...

Do not bother yourself with something that is not relevant to the present. One must still be able to get into the future.

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Nowadays, people learn about w...

Nowadays, people learn about what they think on TV.

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When you don't think, much bec...

When you don't think, much becomes clear.

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Everything that people do is s...

Everything that people do is so ugly that it makes no difference which side you are on.

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The anti-Russian conspiracy ce...

The anti-Russian conspiracy certainly exists - the only problem is that the entire adult population of Russia is participating in it.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said ...

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.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

The author's opinions do not n...

The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

There are no philosophical pro...

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

Victor Pelevin 18 quotes

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