"Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument,……" — Thomas Bernhard
"Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony."
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35 Quotes by Thomas Bernhard
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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…
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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…
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I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I…
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Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write…
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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.…
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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…
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I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession:…
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