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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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• 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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• Every uniform corrupts one's character.

  Max Frisch

  Character, Membership, Uniforms

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

  Max Frisch

  Losing

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

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• Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

  Max Frisch

  Guilt, Use, Lives Of Others

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

  Max Frisch

  Writing, Lines, Firsts

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• Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Deception, Encounters

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, 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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• Why don't we follow our yearning?

  Max Frisch

  Yearning

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• Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

  Max Frisch

  Accepting, Harder, Oneself

  Max Frisch (1958). “I'm not Stiller”, Vintage

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• The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Feelings, Robots

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  People, Choices, Criticism

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

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  True Life, Meaning Of Life, Sound

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

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• It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

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  Men, Civilization, Giving

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

  Max Frisch

  House, Income, Citizens

  Max Frisch (1962). “Three plays: The fire raisers, Count Oederland [and] Andorra”

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• If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

  Max Frisch

  Guilty, Ifs, Conscience

  Max Frisch (1992). “Three Plays”

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• The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Race, White

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• 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

  Soul, Police, World

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

  Max Frisch

  Horse, Differences, Language

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• Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.

  Max Frisch

  Military, Civil War, Gestures

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• 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

  Laughter, Mean, Laughing

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• I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.

  Max Frisch

  Lovers, Knows

  "Gantenbein". Book by Max Frisch, 1964.

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• Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

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  Two, People, Causes

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

  Max Frisch

  Mad, Desire, Identity

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• There is no art without Eros.

  Max Frisch

  Art, Eros

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

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