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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
Max Frisch
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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
Max Frisch -
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight
Max Frisch -
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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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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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today
Max Frisch
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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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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness
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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
Max Frisch -
The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
Max Frisch -
Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
Max Frisch -
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch -
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch -
How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
Max Frisch -
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
Max Frisch -
Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...
Max Frisch
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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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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us
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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.
Max Frisch -
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch