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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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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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Max Frisch |
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Freunde mussen einander verstehen um Freunde zu bleiben. Bruder sind immer Bruder.
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Max Frisch |
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If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line." [
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criticism
writing
self-critique
creative-writing
self-confidence
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Max Frisch |
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Ich bin nicht Stiller!
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Max Frisch |
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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
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self-righteousness
justification
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Max Frisch |
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Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form. Moreover, I have learned from experience that once you are not in form women don't remain in form either; as soon as they are bored they start complaining you've no feeling.
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Max Frisch |
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I've often wondered what people mean when they talk about an experience. I'm a technologist and accustomed to seeing things as they are. I see everything they are talking about very clearly; after all, I'm not blind. I see the moon over the Tamaulipas desert--it is more distinct than at other times, perhaps, but still a calculable mass circling around our planet, an example of gravitation, interesting, but in what way an experience? I see t..
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Max Frisch |
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The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
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Max Frisch |
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Wieso seid ihr starker als die Wahrheit
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Max Frisch |
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only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.
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Max Frisch |
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Ich habe nie einen ernsthaften Versuch unternommen, meinem Leben ein Ende zu machen; auch keinen unernsthaften. Ich habe nur oft, in jedem Lebensalter, dran gedacht.
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Max Frisch |
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Wer sich nicht mit Politik befasst, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen mochte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.
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Max Frisch |
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A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
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fame
social-criticism
society
values
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Max Frisch |
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Come," she said. "We're married, Walter, married. Don't touch me."
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Max Frisch |
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Es gibt allerlei Arten, einen Menschen zu morden oder wenigstens seine Seele, und das merkt keine Polizei der Welt. Dann genugt ein Wort, eine Offenheit im rechten Augenblick. Dann genugt ein Lacheln. Ich mochte den Menschen sehen, der nicht durch Lacheln umzubringen ist oder durch Schweigen.
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Max Frisch |
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She thought it stupid of a woman to want to be understood by a man; the man (said Hanna) wants the woman to be a mystery, so that he can be inspired and excited by his own incomprehension.
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Max Frisch |
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I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.
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Max Frisch |
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The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be extinguished in the light over gorse, asphalt, and sea, to stand up to time, or rather to eternity in the instant. To be eternal means to have existed.
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eternity
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Max Frisch |
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Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
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human-relationships
cause
effect
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Max Frisch |
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Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer.
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truth-of-life
guilt
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Max Frisch |
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Do you know," she said, "that was the Ludovisi Altar we liked so much this morning. It's madly famous!" I let her give me a lecture."
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Max Frisch |
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Ich kann es nicht ausstehen, wenn man mir sagt, was ich zu empfinden habe; dann komme ich mir, obschon ich sehe, wovon die Rede ist, wie ein Blinder vor.
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Max Frisch |
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POEZIIaTA ni sepva.
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Max Frisch |
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Gefuhle am Morgen, das ertragt kein Mann. Dann lieber Geschirr waschen!
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Max Frisch |
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aber vor allem: standhalten, dem Licht, der Freude (wie unser Kind als es sang) im Wissen, dass ich erlosche im Licht uber Ginster, Asphalt und Meer, standhalten der Zeit, beziehungsweise Ewigkeit im Augenblick. Ewig sein: gewesen sein.
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Max Frisch |
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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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Max Frisch |
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Siakash se sgromoliasvash prez ogledalo, kogato se s'budish, nishcho drugo ne pomnish, siakash se sgromoliasvash prez vsichki ogledala, a setne svet't otnovo se sglobiava, vse edno nishcho ne se e sluchilo. A i nishcho ne se e sluchilo.
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Max Frisch |
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I eto che posle, dokato drugiiat veche spi, chertaete planove, kakvito si praviat zatvornitsite, eto che noshchem ste resheni na vsiakak'v obrat, na biagstvo, dr'zki i vdetineni, i ne ot strast, a ot kopnezh po strast, eto, che stiagate kufarite.
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Max Frisch |
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Kolko d'lgo viarva edno dete?
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Max Frisch |
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Pismata vi, kogato ste razdeleni pochti vi plashat, oshchastliviavat vas samite, ponezhe pishete s poroi ot zabraveni slova, na ezik, ot koito ste otviknali. Telefonirate ot khotelska staia s pusto dvoino leglo, bez da zhalite razkhodite, ot London ili ot Khamburg, ili ot Sils, za da si pob'brite posred noshch, nastoichivi ot liubov. Togava oshche vedn'zh chuvate izcheznalite si v minaloto glasove, togava se raztrepervate. Do sreshchata u d..
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Max Frisch |
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The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.
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nature
memory
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Max Frisch |
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Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalitat. Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.
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Max Frisch |
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Everything happened exactly as I had intended it shouldn't.
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Max Frisch |
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Pisaneto bez v'obrazhenie e trud za prekhrana. Dob'r, ama trud. Ako obache e samo za da si vadish khliaba s nego, togava vs'shchnost bikh predpochel da s'm d'rvodelets.
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Max Frisch |
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Das wirkliche Leben, meint er, sei ja so anders... Jedenfalls das seine, denkt er: da erkennt man keinen klaren Ablauf und keinen roten Faden, da zerrinnt es einfach, ohne Abschnitt und ohne Tat, die Leidenschaft zerrinnt in eine Stimmung, und auch die Entschlusse sind wie Sand, der leise durch die Finger rinnt, immer wieder nimmt man eine neue Handvoll, und wenn man sie aufmacht, ist wieder nichts darin geblieben, man ist verzweifelt, und ..
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pain
life
schmerz
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Max Frisch |
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Ich finde sie lustig, ihre heutigen Tanze, lustig zum Schauen, diese existentialistische Hopserei, wo jeder fur sich allein tanzt, seine eignen Faxen schwingt, verwickelt in die eignen Beine, geschuttelt wie von einem Schuttelfrost, alles etwas epileptisch, aber lustig, sehr temperamentvoll, muss ich sagen, aber ich kann das nicht.
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Max Frisch |
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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Max Frisch |
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Hanna had Communist leanings, which I couldn't bear, and on the other a tendency to mysticism, or to put it less kindly, hysteria
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Max Frisch |
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the streamers and the couples busily engaged in bursting one another's balloons.
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Max Frisch |
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When I woke Herbert, he sprang to his feet. What was the matter? When he saw that nothing was the matter, he started snoring again--to avoid being bored.
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Max Frisch |
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I don't deny that it was more than a coincidence which made things turn out as they did, it was a whole train of coincidences. But what has providence to do with it? I don't need any mystical explanation for the occurrence of the improbable; mathematics explains it adequately, as far as I'm concerned. Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the one will come up approximately 1,000,000..
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providence
mathematics
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Max Frisch |
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Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the die will come up proximately 1 ,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the same die the one will come approximately up six times) are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable. But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention o..
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fate
coincidence
probability
mysticism
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Max Frisch |
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Our journey wasn't easy, though often curious: I bored her with my experience of life, she made me old by waiting from morning to evening, wherever we were, for my enthusiasm . . .
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Max Frisch |