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Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard (German: [ˈtoːmas ˈbɛʁnhaʁt]; born Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.

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We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Boring, Character, Keep, People, Succumb, Survive

perfidious society masturbators

Society, Perfidious, Masturbators

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

Exist, Fact, Facts, Mind, Minds, Taking

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

Everything, Existence, Genuine, Pretense, Real, Simulated

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Inspirational, People, Suicide, Work

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Attaching, Crazy, Everything, Goes On, Meanings, Mystery

. . . He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

Dislocated, Phrases, Scrap, Scraps, Words

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

Actually, Dead, One You Love, Persons, Question, Together

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Critical Thinking, Death, Everything, Ridiculous, Thinking, Thinks

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Early, Inspirational, Proper, Too Late, Write, Writing

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

Doe, Everyone, Language, Misunderstood, Permit

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

Depressing, Dog, Head, People

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Banks, Inspiring Love, Night, Rang, Rivers, Unreachable

. . . Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

Condition, Die, Goes On, Journey, Worry, Worst

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Art, Philosophical, Needs, Unbearable, Bearing

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

Applause, Disaster, Follows, Nothing

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Ability, Breathe, Say, Seawater, Think, Thinking

In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.

People, Practice, Say, Speak, Understand, Views

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

Arrogance, Feared, Respected, Use, World

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

Add, Cacophony, Instrument, Together, Virtuoso

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