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“Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes…”

Max Frisch book Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

“Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.”

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“You can lose a woman when you have won her.”

Max Frisch book Montauk

Montauk (1975)

“Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.”

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“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)

“To write is to read one's own self”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“The older you get the simpler you want to make it.”

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“Are you friend with yourself?”

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“…for no rational reason.”

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“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)

“The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.”

Sketchbook 1946-1949