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“I must have made a pitiful, indeed pitiable impression on an observer, though there was none – unless I'm going to say that I am an observer of myself, which is stupid, since I am my own observer anyway: I've actually been observing myself for years, if not for decades; my life now consists only of self-observation and self-contemplation, which naturally leads to self-condemnation, self-rejection and self-mockery. For years I have lived in this state of self-condemnation, self-abnegation and self mockery, in which ultimately I always have to take refuge in order to save myself. But all the time I ask myself what I have to save myself from?”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

“İnsanın önemli anlarda dilsizleşen bir filozof olduğunu keşfetmesinden daha korkunç bir şey olamaz.”
― Wilhelm Genazino, Mutsuzluk Zamanlarında Mutluluk

“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“I’d always cared extremely little for public opinion because I was always obsessed with my own opinion and hence had no time at all for the public’s.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete