Thomas Bernhard said this quote

“ 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. ”

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Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

~ Thomas Bernhard

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

~ Thomas Bernhard

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.

~ Thomas Bernhard

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame, there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

~ Thomas Bernhard