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Max Frisch Quotes

1911–1991 Switzerland

Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century.

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Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect

Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon

We nest in an accident whose precarious balance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us

THANATOS AND EROS
the American for that is:
CASUAL SEX.

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

Time does not change us it just unfolds us

Are you friend with yourself ?

What hope have you know given up ?

To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us

Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel...

The horror of uncreative solitude.....

I'm not Stiller (1955)

(Present) it is a culture that strictly ignores present obligations and places itself entirely at the service of eternity

What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Max Frisch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.