One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.
~ Elfriede Jelinek

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Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions.
~ Elfriede Jelinek

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Money is unimportant, but it is reassuring to have it.
~ Elfriede Jelinek

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Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.
~ Elfriede Jelinek

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There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.
~ Elfriede Jelinek

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

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The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.
~ Elfriede Jelinek

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Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
~ Elfriede Jelinek

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

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