Max Frisch citations (67 citations, Page 2)

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Max Frisch: Citations en anglais

“A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity…”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge”

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Max Frisch livre Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

“That a plot has no real life of it's own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccesful: once and for all”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“What hope have you know given up?”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977

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

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.”

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Max Frisch

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“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”

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Sketchbook 1946-1949

“The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today”

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Max Frisch

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

“I know that I'm the happiest of lovers…”

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Max Frisch livre Gantenbein

Gantenbein faking to his lover he is blind
Gantenbein (1964)

“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977

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

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Max Frisch livre Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

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

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Max Frisch

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”

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Max Frisch

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”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Max Frisch livre Montauk

Montauk (1975)

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

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Max Frisch

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.”

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Max Frisch

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“To write is to read one's own self”

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Max Frisch

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?”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“Are you friend with yourself?”

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Sketchbook 1966-1977

“…for no rational reason.”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977

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

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Max Frisch

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.”

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Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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