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Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.

— Max Frisch Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

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Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Homo Faber (1957)

The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

Montauk (1975)

How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

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