Max Frisch Quotes
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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight
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Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it
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There is no art without Eros.
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A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
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There are moments when her voice is all he needs.
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They wanted what is possible only once: the now.
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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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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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous
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Uniforms ruin every character
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My greatest fear: repetition.
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
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A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity...
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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness
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The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.
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One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive
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If on some occasion I happen to read something in it - because, for instance, I neet to know a date - I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
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The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
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Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon
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The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.
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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'