Max Frisch Quotes
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Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel...
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Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kamen Menschen.
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THANATOS AND EROSthe American for that is:CASUAL SEX.
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What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation
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Cause and effect are never divided between two people
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Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect
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You can lose a woman when you have won her.
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I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.
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There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
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It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple
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Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful.
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You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself
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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
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(Present) it is a culture that strictly ignores present obligations and places itself entirely at the service of eternity
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How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person
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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
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My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.
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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.
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To write is to read one's own self
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Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.
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How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.
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There is no art without Eros.