Max Frisch quotes

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. (Max Frisch)
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. View quote
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To write is to read one's own self. View quote
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison. View quote
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. View quote
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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. View quote
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I live, like every real man, in my work. View quote
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There is no art without Eros. View quote
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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. View quote
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You can put anything into words, except your own life. View quote
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I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate. (Max Frisch)
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society. View quote
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It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple. View quote
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The older you get the simpler you want to make it. View quote
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I have no words for my reality. View quote
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My greatest fear: repetition. View quote
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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? View quote
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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living. View quote
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. View quote
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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. View quote
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I know that I'm the happiest of lovers... (Max Frisch)
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. View quote
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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight. View quote
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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely. View quote
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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. View quote
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