6 Quotes by Elan Mastai

We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.

You believe what you do.

(str. 95) "Stotine je ljudi prolazilo u svim smjerovima, neki na putu za posao, neki u posjet pacijentima, neki su se uputili na pregled, neki ispratili supružnike, neki dočekali člana obitelji, neki su tračali s kolegama, čavrljali s prijateljima, očijukali sa strancima, fraktalni dio svakodnevnog života.

For just a moment I had a home. It was the size of one cell but that was enough to fit in all I ever wanted.

It was both the greatest kiss of my life and also made me feel like until that moment I’d been kissing all wrong.

Even a little bit of fame can mess with your head. It’s a cognitive disease, you know? Fame. It used to only be for royalty and we know what they’re like. I’m not much of a Freudian, but something about fame makes the ID and the Superego devour the Ego like an anacondas in a cage, right before they cannibalize each other. Fame warps your identity, metastasizes your anxieties and hollows you out like a jack-o-lantern. It’s sparkly pixy dust that burns whatever it touches like acid.