Max Frisch Quotes

• 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 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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  Love, Space, Secret

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

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• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

  Max Frisch

  Jealousy, Comparison

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• We asked for workers. We got people instead.

  Max Frisch

  People, Workers

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• Una broma es un buen camuflaje. El siguiente mejor es el sentimiento... Pero el mejor camuflaje de todos -en mi opinión- es la pura y simple verdad. Porque nadie se la cree.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Simple, Camouflage

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• Tecnología... la habilidad de organizar el mundo de tal manera que no tengamos que experimentarlo.

  Max Frisch

  Wisdom, Science, Technology

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

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

  Max Frisch

  Fácil, Si

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

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  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

  Desea

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

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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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• 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.

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  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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• I have no words for my reality.

  Max Frisch

  Realidad

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

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• The dignity of man is in free choice.

  Max Frisch

  Freedom, Men, Choices

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

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  Progress, Delight, Shelter

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

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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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  Real, Identity, Alive

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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.

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  Freedom, Party, Political

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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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• Es sólo la conciencia de una inexistencia la que nos permite darnos cuenta por momentos de que estamos viviendo.

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  Realizing, Consciousness, Moments

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

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

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  Odio, Gente, Odio

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

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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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• There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

  Max Frisch

  Ownership, Concerned

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• Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.

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  Love, God, Taken

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

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• You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

  Max Frisch

  Perder

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.332, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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