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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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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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Truth is always a delusion.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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