Max Frisch quotes - page 3

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:

The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

Max Frisch

Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...

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One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive.

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Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.

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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous.

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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words.

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You can lose a woman when you have won her.

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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.

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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.

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Are you friend with yourself?

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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

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The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.

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THANATOS AND EROS the American for that is: CASUAL SEX.

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Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it.

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Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful.

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The horror of uncreative solitude.....

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There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

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My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.

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We nest in an accident whose precarious balance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us.

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A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.

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People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?

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