Max Frisch Quotes
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What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.
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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
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I live, like every real man, in my work.
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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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I have no words for my reality.
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That a plot has no real life of it's own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccesful: once and for all
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...
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We nest in an accident whose precarious valance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
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How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us
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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
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Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.