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

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

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