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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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Konolfingen BE
P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Friedrich Dürenmatt
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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 rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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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 freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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Truth is always a delusion.
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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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Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
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