Max Frisch Quotes
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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
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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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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight
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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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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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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
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Uniforms ruin every character
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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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My greatest fear: repetition.
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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They wanted what is possible only once: the now.
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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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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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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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
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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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The horror of uncreative solitude.....
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Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
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The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.