Max Frisch - Person Quotes

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The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

Max Frisch

To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us

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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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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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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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We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.

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A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

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There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

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