Thomas Bernhard Quotes

• What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth.

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• Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

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• I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.

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• A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

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• All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

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• After all, there is nothing but failure.

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• Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death.

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• The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

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• I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.

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• You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

  Thomas Bernhard

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• Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

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• We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there’s no other motive except the even baser one of making money….

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• It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

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Thomas Bernhard (13)

Birth:	9th February, 1931
Death:	12th February, 1989
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Poet

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