Max Frisch quotes - page 2

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. (Max Frisch)
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one. View quote
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Cause and effect are never divided between two people. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. View quote
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Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means. View quote
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Everything that is human looks like a special case. View quote
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What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive. View quote
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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us. View quote
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(Present) it is a culture that strictly ignores present obligations and places itself entirely at the service of eternity. View quote
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Do you know what you need? (Max Frisch)
How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person. View quote
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Uniforms ruin every character. View quote
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A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity... View quote
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He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge. View quote
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Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect. View quote
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What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation. View quote
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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today. View quote
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How much frankness can we stand in a friend? View quote
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We asked for workers. We got people instead. View quote
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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)
If on some occasion I happen to read something in it - because, for instance, I neet to know a date - I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite. View quote
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You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself. View quote
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not? View quote
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Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel... View quote
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