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We asked for workers. We got people instead.

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Max Frisch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 15
Died: 1991
Died: April 4
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City of Zurich
Max Rudolf Frisch
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Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.
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If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!
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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!
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
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There is no art without Eros.
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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
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If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
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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.
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
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The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
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I live, like every real man, in my work.
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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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.
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When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure it is memory that will develop it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have no words for my reality.
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