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If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I need 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 succeed in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.

Max Frisch

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

Max Frisch

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

Max Frisch