"Life is Elsewhere" Quotes
A poet's quest for identity and fame becomes a satire of artistic pretension and political manipulation in Communist Czechoslovakia.
fiction | 432 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine the nature of that occurrence is that we are its participants and therefore it is not a part of our experience.
It is impossible to live without the enduring presence of another person.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.
Poets don't ever know what they're doing. They don't know why they're doing it. They're just driven to do it. It's like this absolute compulsion.
The only thing that people have in common is that they are all individuals.
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
The more the world becomes a world of followers, the more it becomes a world of masters.
