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We asked for workers. We got people instead.
Max Frisch
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Max Frisch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 15
Died: 1991
Died: April 4
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When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure it is memory that will develop it.
Max Frisch
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.
Max Frisch
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
Max Frisch
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
Max Frisch
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
Max Frisch
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Max Frisch
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
Max Frisch
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
Max Frisch
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.
Max Frisch
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch
I have no words for my reality.
Max Frisch
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
Max Frisch
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch
A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.
Max Frisch
It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.
Max Frisch
There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
Max Frisch
We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.
Max Frisch
Every uniform corrupts one's character.
Max Frisch
Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.
Max Frisch
