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Thomas Bernhard has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
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In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most…
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Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good…
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I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this…
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Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down…
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Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
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We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
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Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
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The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
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Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.
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Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is…
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Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity…
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I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own…
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for…
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Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good…
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My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to…
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I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
— Maria Edgeworth
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No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after…
— Edgar Friedenberg
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Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. ... Every now and then…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
— Rick Wakeman
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
— Walt Whitman
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I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out…
— Lorrie Moore
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