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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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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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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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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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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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 evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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