Many commit suicide in their fifty-first year, I thought ........ Very often, the cause is the shame that after fifty years, the fifties experiences, precisely for having reached this limit. For fifty years, it is enough, I thought. We fall into vulgarity when we pass fifty and still continue to live, to exist. We're pretty cowardly to go to the limit, I thought ...
- Thomas Bernhard, The Castaway
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