After my parents were dead, I found in a box and in two chests of drawers nothing but hundreds of bright red Alpine caps, I said, nothing but bright red Alpine stockings. Every one of them knitted by my mother. My parents could have gone into the High Alps with these bright red caps and bright red stockings for thousands of years. I burnt every one of those bright red caps and bright red stockings, I said. I put on one of my mother's hundreds of bright red Alpine caps and in this costume burnt all the others, laughing, laughing, continuously laughing, I said.( Goethe Dies, p.65) . Thomas Bernhard
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Obsessive compulsive disorder is a type of anxiety disorder where people cannot stop thinking about their actions. The common idea is that people with obsessive compulsive disorder clean everything, even when there is no need to be "clean."

Source: Goethe Schtirbt: Erza$?Hlungen

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