Max Frisch Quotes
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
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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 anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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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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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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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
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Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon
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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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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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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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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
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I live, like every real man, in my work.
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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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I have no words for my reality.
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How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
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Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
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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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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us
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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today
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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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Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.