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Thomas Bernhard quotes: I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself ... I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself ...
Thomas Bernhard quotes: It is better to read twelve lines of a book with the utmost intensity and thus to penetrate into them to the full It is better to read twelve lines of a book with the utmost intensity and thus to penetrate into them to the full
Thomas Bernhard quotes: The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences. The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It
Thomas Bernhard quotes: It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould ... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people. Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould ... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Because in the end nothing matters all that much, as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same. Because in the end nothing matters all that much, as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous
Thomas Bernhard quotes: We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ... We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ...
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent. Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake. We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting my footsteps until I feel about to go But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting my footsteps until I feel about to go mad.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: When we think, we know nothing, everything is open, nothing, so Roithamer. When we think, we know nothing, everything is open, nothing, so Roithamer.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth. What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public. He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is. Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases. He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Literature is not conceivable without philosophy or the other way round Literature is not conceivable without philosophy or the other way round
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Reading is still the most bearable of all forms of disgust. Reading is still the most bearable of all forms of disgust.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard quotes: The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents. The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: After all, there is nothing but failure. After all, there is nothing but failure.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me. I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Nature, not yet polluted by human beings, hence his early rising. Nature, not yet polluted by human beings, hence his early rising.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: If that handsome fellow were a cripple he wouldn't repel me, but he isn't a cripple, he is that handsome fellow, so he repels me ... If that handsome fellow were a cripple he wouldn't repel me, but he isn't a cripple, he is that handsome fellow, so he repels me ...
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Nothing but disaster follows from applause. Nothing but disaster follows from applause.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: But of course the world consists only of absurd ideas. But of course the world consists only of absurd ideas.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything - and this is the most cruel law - continually gets worse. The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything - and this is the most cruel law - continually gets worse.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time ... Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time ...
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Weng lies in a hollow, buried among blocks of ice for millions of years. The roadsides favor promiscuity. Weng lies in a hollow, buried among blocks of ice for millions of years. The roadsides favor promiscuity.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you. You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives; We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives;
Thomas Bernhard quotes: All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together. All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with. Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
Thomas Bernhard quotes: I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs. I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think. Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness. Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable. The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted. But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: 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. 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.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself. I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Everything about everybody is nothing but diversion from death. Everything about everybody is nothing but diversion from death.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to meI have no others. The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me
I have no others.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter - that has always been my ideal. The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter - that has always been my ideal.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: A body needs at leastthree points of support,not in a straight line,to fix its position,so Roithamer had written. A body needs at least
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought. When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously... Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...
Thomas Bernhard quotes: To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach. To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty. A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: He abhorred people who said things that hadn't been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind. He abhorred people who said things that hadn't been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.
Thomas Bernhard quotes: All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What
Thomas Bernhard quotes: Wertheimer was afraid of losing his unhappiness and killed himself for this and no other reason, I thought, with Wertheimer was afraid of losing his unhappiness and killed himself for this and no other reason, I thought, with

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