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on the one hand she had boundless trust in me, merely because I was thirty years older, a childish trust, and on the other hand no respect at all. I was vexed to find I expected respect.
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How many of the people I meet are interested in whether I'm enjoying myself, in my feelings at all?
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She was seriously disappointed, a child I was treating like a woman, or a woman I was treating like a child, I didn't know myself which it was.
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They were obviously Americans, I could hear their voices as the party wandered around our tomb; to judge by the voices, they might have been stenographers from Cleveland. "Oh, isn't it lovely?" "Oh, is this the Campagna?" "Oh, how lovely it is here!"
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The ladies' mauve-dyed hair interspersed with the bald patches of the gentlemen, who had taken off their panama hats--they must have broken out of an old-age home, I thought, but I didn't say it.
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Ivy was a model, she chose her clothes to match the color of the car, I think, and the color of the car to match her lipstick or the other way around, I'm not sure which it was.
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the Indians were far too gentle, too peaceable, positively childlike. They squatted for whole evenings in their white straw hats on the earth, motionless as toadstools, content without light, silent. The sun and moon were enough light for them, an effeminate race, eerie but innocuous.
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My life was in her hands .
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How many children are really wanted? The fact that the woman would rather have it once it's there is a different matter, an automatic reaction of the instincts, she forgets she tried to avoid it and added to this is the feeling of power over the man, motherhood as an economic weapon in the hands of the woman.
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Children are something we want or don't want.
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I have been serving up stories to some sort of public, and in these stories I have, I know, laid myself bare - to the point of non-recognition. I live, not with my own story, but just with those parts of it that I have been able to put to literary use. Whole areas are missing: my father, my brother, my sister. Last year my sister died. I was disturbed to realize that I knew so much about her and yet had written none of it. It is not even tr..
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Jeder Mensch erfindet sich fruher oder spater eine Geschichte, die er fur sein Leben halt", [...] "oder eine ganze Reihe von Geschichten" [...]."
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geschichten-erzählen
mein-name-sei-gantenbein
schweizer-literatur
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Why should I be melancholy? England wasn't in sight yet.
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Boys!" she said. "You can't imagine what they're like--they think you're their mother, and that's frightful!"
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In Florence I rebelled and told her that frankly I thought her Fra Angelico rather mawkish. Then I corrected myself and said "naive." She didn't deny it, on the contrary, she was delighted; it couldn't be naive enough for her. What I enjoyed was campari!"
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We talked about constellations--the usual thing, when two people haven't yet discovered which one knows less about the stars than the other; the rest is romantic fantasy, which I can't bear.
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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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The horror of uncreative solitude.....
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Max Frisch |
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Cause and effect are never divided between two people
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Max Frisch |
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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
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Max Frisch |
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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.
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Max Frisch |
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Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...
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Max Frisch |
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They wanted what is possible only once: the now.
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I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...
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Max Frisch |
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It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple
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Max Frisch |
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
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Max Frisch |
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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us
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Max Frisch |
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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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Max Frisch |
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Uniforms ruin every character
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Max Frisch |
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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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Max Frisch |
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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.
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Max Frisch |
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To write is to read one's own self
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Max Frisch |
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
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Max Frisch |
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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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Max Frisch |
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Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon
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Max Frisch |
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Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect
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Max Frisch |
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How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
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Max Frisch |
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The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
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Max Frisch |
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I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.
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Max Frisch |
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What hope have you know given up ?
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Max Frisch |
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Are you friend with yourself ?
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Max Frisch |
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Do you know what you need?
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Max Frisch |
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for no rational reason.
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