Max Frisch Quotes

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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.

Max Frisch
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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Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.

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That a plot has no real life of it's own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccesful: once and for all

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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'

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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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Cause and effect are never divided between two people

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

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How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

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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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We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes — or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

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

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How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person

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