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Max Frisch
Swiss
Novelist
About the author
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Income
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Fear
#Jealousy
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Life
#Words
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Friend
#Sense
#Humor
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Time
#Change
There is no art without Eros.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Art
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.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#World
#Soul
#Police
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Language
#Difference
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#World
#Technology
#Experience
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#World
#Technology
#Experience
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Man
#Living
#Truth
#Protection
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Nothing
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Life
#Ending
#Sound
#Meaning
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Living
#Consciousness
#Moments
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Conscience
I live, like every real man, in my work.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Work
#Man
I have no words for my reality.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Words
#Reality
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Fate
#Providence
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Sense
#Destiny
#Marriage
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Man
My greatest fear: repetition.
Max Frisch,
Swiss
Novelist
#Repetition