A Brief History of Living Forever Quotes

“Their money was role-play, divorced completely from the reality of labor, of raw resources, production. As I continued to learn during these parties, most of the wealthy men didn’t make anything. They had taken the money of their fathers and invested it and made even more. And when “more” didn’t satisfy their needs, they used their money as collateral to borrow even more money, so much money that they owed more than they’d actually had to begin with. These lives of luxury, all based on fictions. The difference between rich and poor was made up of chance and a thousand lies. I couldn’t quite decide if I wanted to become one of them or poison their drinks and send them all to hell.”
― Jaroslav Kalfar, A Brief History of Living Forever

“Sometimes you have to do that to survive. Forget people entirely.”
― Jaroslav Kalfar, A Brief History of Living Forever

“I’d become a priestess of the hypermarket, a representative of the gods of consumption; when I dared to reject an expired coupon or declare items out of stock, my customers threatened me with lawsuits, violence, complete destruction of every facet of my “meaningless existence.” They felt that I stood between them and the deities in charge of their fates, deities that promised a life of ever-expanding abundance and convenience. If only the cashier did what she was told, eternal happiness would be possible for all.”
― Jaroslav Kalfar, A Brief History of Living Forever

“As with most jobs that require a name tag, mine also required a suspension of dignity.”
― Jaroslav Kalfar, A Brief History of Living Forever

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. -Hannah Arendt”
― Jaroslav Kalfar, A Brief History of Living Forever