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 Copy Share Image
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… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share
“Right in the centre was a tall bell tower of white stone, from which long ago some princess had leapt onto the stones below,… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“I think the first glimpse of my true personality was the moment when I realised I could aspire beyond the thin blue film of… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
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… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“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 money you can buy a view from the window with a painted sun, a sky-blue bay and a calm evening. Unfortunately the author of this fragment will again be Ed—but even this is not important, because… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition, because man hardly exists. Nothing exists to which one could point and say: 'There, that is Homo Zapiens.' HZ is simply the residual luminescence of a soul fallen asleep; it is a film about the shooting of another… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share
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… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share
“I and this entire world are nothing but a thought someone is thinking,” the bear said in a quiet voice.” — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“My youthful dreams of the future were born from the gentle sadness of those evenings, far removed from the rest of life, when you lie in the grass beside the remains of someone else’s campfire, with your bicycle beside you, watching the purple stripes left in the western sky by the sun that has just set, and you can see… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“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… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“...what are they but the voice of history multiplied by millions of televisions?” — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
