“The horror of uncreative solitude…..”
I'm not Stiller (1955)
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Max Frisch 67
Swiss playwright and novelist 1911–1991Related quotes
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Paris Review 154, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/732/the-art-of-poetry-no-82-derek-mahon
“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
“But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
La solitude est certainement une belle chose, mais il y a plaisir d'avoir quelqu'un qui sache répondre, à qui on puisse dire de temps en temps, que c'est un belle chose. (Solitude is certainly a fine thing; but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer, from time to time, that it is a fine thing.) —Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Dissertations chrétiennes et morales (1665), XVIII: "Les plaisirs de la vie retirée".
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