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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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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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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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