"...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons,……" — Thomas Bernhard
"...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide."
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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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