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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About Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard was a 20th-century Austrian playwright and novelist. Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society