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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Graphic Artist
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Konolfingen BE
P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Friedrich Dürenmatt
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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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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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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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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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
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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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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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