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Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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