Max Frisch Quotes

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• Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

  Max Frisch

  Time, Honesty, Doe

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We asked for workers. We got people instead.

  Max Frisch

  People, Workers

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• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

  Max Frisch

  Jealousy, Comparison

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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.

  Max Frisch

  Love, Space, Secret

  Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

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• If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!

  Max Frisch

  Easy, Ifs

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• A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Simple, Camouflage

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• Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

  Wisdom, Science, Technology

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

  Max Frisch

  Memories, Film, Moments

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

  Max Frisch

  Want

  "Sketchbook 1946-1949". Book by Max Frisch, 1977.

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• A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Answers, Protection

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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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.

  Max Frisch

  Distance, Eye, Age

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

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  Marriage, Crosses, Shows

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can put anything into words, except your own life.

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  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

  Max Frisch

  Hate, People, Hatred

  "Sketchbook 1966-1977". Book by Max Frisch, 1977.

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• In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

  Max Frisch

  Freedom, Party, Political

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• I have no words for my reality.

  Max Frisch

  Reality

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

  Max Frisch

  Progress, Delight, Shelter

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The dignity of man is in free choice.

  Max Frisch

  Freedom, Men, Choices

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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.

  Max Frisch

  Real, Identity, Alive

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• My greatest fear: repetition.

  Max Frisch

  Greatest Fear, Repetition

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

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  Travel, Communication, Home

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

  Max Frisch

  Realizing, Consciousness, Moments

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Why don't we follow our yearning?

  Max Frisch

  Yearning

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• Why do dying people never shed tears?

  Max Frisch

  Death, People, Tears

  Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

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• Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Men, Way

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