Max Frisch quotes

Max Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist renowned for his exploration of identity and individuality. His works, such as "I'm Not Stiller" and "Homo Faber," are considered classics of postwar European literature. He deeply influenced 20th-century literature with his innovative narrative techniques and existential themes. Here are 82 of his quotes:

To write is to read one's own self.

Max Frisch

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

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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.

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I live, like every real man, in my work.

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There is no art without Eros.

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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

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You can put anything into words, except your own life.

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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.

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It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple.

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The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

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I have no words for my reality.

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My greatest fear: repetition.

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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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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

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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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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.

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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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