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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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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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
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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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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
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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 live, like every real man, in my work.
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
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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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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 have no words for my reality.
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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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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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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How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today
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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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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us
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Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
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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.