Quotes from book
Extinction

Extinction
Thomas BernhardOriginal title Auslöschung (German, 1986)

Extinction is the last of Thomas Bernhard’s novels. It was originally published in German in 1986.

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“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

Thomas Bernhard book Extinction

Source: Extinction

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