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The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me-- I have no others.Thomas Bernhard
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People are always talking about it being their duty to find their way to their fellow men – to their neighbour, as they are forever saying with all the baseness of false sentiment – when in fact it is purely and simply a question of finding their way to themselves. Let each first find his way to himself! And since hardly anyone has yet found his way to himself, it is inconceivable that any of these unfortunate millions has ever found his way to another human being – or to his neighbour, as they say, dripping with self-deception.Thomas Bernhard
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Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.Thomas Bernhard
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On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.Thomas Bernhard
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I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.Thomas Bernhard
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Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.Thomas Bernhard