Thomas Bernhard

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Instead of committing suicide, people go to work

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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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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

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everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

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You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real