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“We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist”

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Thomas Bernhard, born on February 9, 1931 and died on February 12, 1989, was an influential Austrian novelist. His works are renowned for their unique style and profound criticism of social reality. more

“The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.”

Mind Seems Might Steps Ordinary Flight Climbs Carrie Climbing Behalf Bothered Merchandise Shoppers Escalators

Author:Joseph Roth

“Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.”

Source: What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

“A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.”

Knows Mean Body Moving Taken Shadow Fixed

Author:Joseph Roth

“Only the small things in life are important”

Important Things In Life Small Things Small Things In Life

Author:Joseph Roth

“Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.”

Things Change Translations Translators

Author:Gunter Grass

“After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.”

Games Belief Situation Capitalism Fairs Socialism Unusual Collapse Greedy Suicidal Rivals Unleashed Fair Game

Author:Gunter Grass

“Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.”

Art Hard Artist Art Is Irrational Pointless Puritan

Author:Gunter Grass

“I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.”

Found Nonsense Loaded Seductive Euphoria Pathos

Author:Gunter Grass

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