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Thomas Bernhard
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
Thomas Bernhard, Correction

Emil M. Cioran
“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”
Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Jens Peter Jacobsen
“He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course.

This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!”
Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne

Emil M. Cioran
“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Hermann Hesse
“You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.”
Hermann Hesse

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