"People keep a dog and are ruled by……" — Thomas Bernhard
"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."
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Thomas Bernhard
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The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
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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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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.…
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