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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/ludwig-wittgenstein-once-said-that-names-are-the-only-things-that/)

[Victor Pelevin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-pelevin/)

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## More by Victor Pelevin

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/there-s-a-scientific-hypothesis-that-every-person-s-name-is-a-primary/)

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> [“Right in the centre was a tall bell tower of white stone, from which long ago some princess had leapt onto the stones below,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/right-in-the-centre-was-a-tall-bell-tower-of-white-stone-from-which/)

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> [“I think the first glimpse of my true personality was the moment when I realised I could aspire beyond the thin blue film of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/i-think-the-first-glimpse-of-my-true-personality-was-the-moment-when/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/how-can-non-existence-get-sick-of-itself-everytime-you-wake-up-you/)

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> [“In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great deal of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/in-itself-a-wall-on-which-a-panoramic-view-of-a-non-existent-world-is/)

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> [“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition, because man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/comrades-in-the-struggle-the-position-of-modern-man-is-not-merely/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/i-am-closest-of-all-to-happiness-although-i-won-t-attempt-to-define/)

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> [“I and this entire world are nothing but a thought someone is thinking,” the bear said in a quiet voice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/i-and-this-entire-world-are-nothing-but-a-thought-someone-is-thinking/)

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> [“My youthful dreams of the future were born from the gentle sadness of those evenings, far removed from the rest of life, when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/my-youthful-dreams-of-the-future-were-born-from-the-gentle-sadness-of/)

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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/there-are-no-philosophical-problems-there-is-only-a-suite-of/)

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> [“Of course, you don't turn into a shit just because you buy a Mercedes-600. It's the other way round: the reason you can afford…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/of-course-you-don-t-turn-into-a-shit-just-because-you-buy-a-mercedes/)

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> [“...what are they but the voice of history multiplied by millions of televisions?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/what-are-they-but-the-voice-of-history-multiplied-by-millions-of/)

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> [The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/the-author-s-opinions-do-not-necessarily-coincide-with-his-point-of/)

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> [“I was aware that I was on the moon, but the immense distance separating me from the earth was a pure abstraction for me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/i-was-aware-that-i-was-on-the-moon-but-the-immense-distance/)

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> [“The USSR, which they'd begun to renovate and improve at about the time when Tatarsky decided to change his profession, improved so much that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/the-ussr-which-they-d-begun-to-renovate-and-improve-at-about-the-time/)

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