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Victor Pelevin. Meaning of Life.

 
 
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
 
‘I’m so happy for you, darling!’ I said.
 
Not many were-creatures know what it is t feel happy for someone else.  And tailless monkeys know even less about it, all they know how to do is smile broadly in order to boost their social adaptability and increase the volume of [...]

Victor Pelevin. Light versus Dust.

 
 
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
 
‘The real super-werewolf is a heavenly being.  A heavenly being never loses her connection with the heavens.’
 
‘What does that mean?’
 
‘In this world there is nothing but dust.  But when a heavenly being sees the dust, she remembers the light that makes the dust visible.  While a tailless monkey only [...]

Victor Pelevin. The Essence of Human Mind.

 
 
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
 
‘But it’s my mind, isn’t it? Then what’s the problem?’
 
‘The problem is that your mind isn’t actually yours.’
 
‘Then whose is it?’
 
‘It’s not possible to say that it is anybody’s at all.  Or what it’s like and where it is.  All these concepts arise within it, that is, it precedes [...]

Victor Pelevin. The Beauty and Deception.

 
 
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
 
I cannot say that she was especially good-looking.  On those occasions when I saw her after a long separation, I was amazed at how this skinny little creature with such fierce eyes could have become everything for me – love, life, death, the salvation of my soul.  But she [...]

Victor Pelevin. Truth.

 
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
 
The cause of error by living beings is that they believe it is possible to cast aside the false and attain unto the truth.  But when you attain unto yourself, the false becomes true, and there is no other truth to which one need attain after that.