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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.
Max Frisch
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Max Frisch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 15
Died: 1991
Died: April 4
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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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We asked for workers. We got people instead.
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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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If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
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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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I have no words for my reality.
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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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The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
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There is no art without Eros.
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The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
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If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
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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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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.
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