Quotes from book
Gargoyles

Name: Gargoyles
Author: Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard Original title Verstörung (German, 1967)

Gargoyles is one of Thomas Bernhard’s earliest novels, which made the author known both nationally and internationally. Originally published in German in 1967, it’s a kaleidoscopic work, considered by critics his most disquieting and nihilistic.

“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”

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“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.”

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“Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.”

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“You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.”

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