Thomas Bernhard
Families
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There are no families anymore, only live-in arrangements, rail and postal workers credit unions, travel associations, limited philosophy par...
Those Who Die Early
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Everything fails in the end, everything ends in the graveyard. The young people of today are running into the arms of death at age twelve, a...
The Perfect and the Helpless
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The perfect not only threatens us ceaselessly with our ruin, it also ruins everything that is hanging on these walls under the label masterp...
The Lunatics - The Inmates
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I must be the prisoner, unless I'm crazy, for my clothes are prison clothes, and I am wearing prison clothes, am I not? - The brain ...
Publisher
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"What is that, a publisher? I could put the question to you: What is a publisher (Verleger)? A bedside rug (Bettvorleger), there's ...
Eros
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"Everyone knows what eroticism is. There's no need to talk about it. Everyone has their own sense of the erotic. [..] nothing can l...
Ultimately
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'When I concern myself with Roithamer, with what order of magnitude am I dealing? I ask myself, clearly I am dealing with a head that is...
True Love
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'An Italian who owns a villa in Riva on Lake Garda and can live very comfortably on the interest from the estate his father left him has...
Absolute Demand
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'Once, I had to have the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, I wanted to read an article on Mozart’s Zaide, which had appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zei...
Against the facts
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'If we look at a person, we are bound in a short space of time to say what a horrible, what an unbearable person. If we look at Nature, ...
Disaster
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'We keep trying to uncover backgrounds but we do not get any farther, we merely complicate and disjoint what is already complicated and ...
False
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'People are always talking about it being their duty to find their way to their fellow men - to their neighbour, as they are forever say...
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Dostoyevsky
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'Never in my whole life have I read a more engrossing and elemental work, and at the time I had never read such a long one. It had the e...
Women
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'I can only say that for a quarter of a century I have dealt with women only. I can hardly bear men. I can't bear conversations with...
Strangers
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'To question an innkeeper's wife about a person, no matter what person, would surely mean to let that person appear in a dirty light...
Relief
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'I had been able to spend some time again in my library, moreover with The World as Will and Idea , calmed and in a pleasant frame of mi...
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Observation
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'Of course I am trained in perception and observation in an especially thorough manner and therefore am possibly not a generally valid e...
Rhythm
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'I am more at home in Vienna generally than I am in Upper Austria, which I prescribed for myself as a survival therapy sixteen years ago...
Friendship
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'Your mistake, my sister had said, is to isolate yourself completely in our house. You don't go and visit friends any longer, though...
Opposition
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'..there is no greater pleasure than being in contact with such extremely difficult people.' from Walking
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The Page
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'When you look at a white wall you will realize that it is neither white nor bare. If you are on your own for a long time and get used ...
Total Music
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'Our age has witnessed the eruption of total music, anywhere between the North Pole and the South Pole you are forced to hear music, in ...
Viennese coffeehouses
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'I have always suffered for the Viennese coffeehouse disease. I have suffered more from this disease than from any other. I frankly have...
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Childhood
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'In Rome I sometimes think of Wolfsegg and tell myself that I have only to go back there in order to rediscover my childhood. This has...
Language
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'.. the thousands and hundreds of thousands of words that we keep trotting out, recognizable by their revolting truth which is revolti...
Interviews
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Books
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"You won’t find books here. I don’t know anybody who reads less than I do. And I only deal with people who hardly read anything. Book...
Freedom
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"I never in my life freed myself by writing. If I had done that nothing would be left. And what would I do with the freedom I gained?...
Obernathal
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Gehen / Walking
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'Whereas, before Karrer went mad, I used to go walking with Oehler only on Wednesdays, now I go walking--now that Karrer has gone mad-...
Obernathal
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Krucka / Ottnang
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