Max Frisch quotes - page 3

The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life. (Max Frisch)
The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority. View quote
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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes... View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous. View quote
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words. View quote
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You can lose a woman when you have won her. View quote
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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images. View quote
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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair. View quote
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How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses. (Max Frisch)
Are you friend with yourself? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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THANATOS AND EROS the American for that is: CASUAL SEX. View quote
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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. View quote
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Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful. View quote
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The horror of uncreative solitude..... View quote
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There are moments when her voice is all he needs. View quote
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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing. View quote
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They wanted what is possible only once: the now. (Max Frisch)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
Max Frisch

Max Frisch

Occupation: Swiss Architect
Born: May 15, 1911
Died: April 4, 1991
Quotes count: 82
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