João

“But simple people don’t understand complicated ones and thrust the latter back on themselves, more ruthlessly than any others, I thought. The biggest mistake is to think that one can be rescued by so-called simple people. A person goes to them in an extremely needy condition and begs desperately to be rescued and they thrust this person even more deeply into his own despair. And how are they supposed to save the extravagant one in his extravagance, I thought. Wertheimer”
― Thomas Bernhard, The Loser

“But of course the world consists only of absurd ideas.”
― Thomas Bernhard, The Loser

“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn