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Max Frisch Quote: “There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that’s something no police in the world can spot.”

51. “There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that’s something no police in the world can spot.”

Max Frisch Quote: “You can put anything into words, except your own life.”

52. “You can put anything into words, except your own life.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.”

53. “Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don’t want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn’t always fun, you can’t always be in form. Moreover, I have learned from experience that once you are not in form women don’t remain in form either; as soon as they are bored they start complaining you’ve no feeling.”

54. “Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don’t want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn’t always fun, you can’t always be in form. Moreover, I have learned from experience that once you are not in form women don’t remain in form either; as soon as they are bored they start complaining you’ve no feeling.”

Max Frisch Quote: “I can’t bear being told what I ought to feel; although I can see the subject under discussion, I feel like a blind man.”

55. “I can’t bear being told what I ought to feel; although I can see the subject under discussion, I feel like a blind man.”

Max Frisch Quote: “It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

56. “It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

Max Frisch Quote: “I know that I’m the happiest of lovers...”

57. “I know that I’m the happiest of lovers...”

Max Frisch Quote: “It is remarkable that the persons we love most are those we can least describe.”

58. “It is remarkable that the persons we love most are those we can least describe.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Conversation was hardly possible; I had forgotten that anyone could be so young.”

59. “Conversation was hardly possible; I had forgotten that anyone could be so young.”

Max Frisch Quote: “The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.”

60. “The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.”

Max Frisch Quote: “To write is to read one’s own self.”

61. “To write is to read one’s own self.”

Max Frisch Quote: “I can’t have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don’t want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn’t always fun, you can’t always be in form.”

62. “I can’t have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don’t want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn’t always fun, you can’t always be in form.”

Max Frisch Quote: “To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us.”

63. “To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us.”

Max Frisch Quote: “A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.”

64. “A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Come,” she said. “We’re married, Walter, married. Don’t touch me.”

65. “Come,” she said. “We’re married, Walter, married. Don’t touch me.”

Max Frisch Quote: “The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.”

66. “The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Do you know,” she said, “that was the Ludovisi Altar we liked so much this morning. It’s madly famous!” I let her give me a lecture.”

67. “Do you know,” she said, “that was the Ludovisi Altar we liked so much this morning. It’s madly famous!” I let her give me a lecture.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Hanna had Communist leanings, which I couldn’t bear, and on the other a tendency to mysticism, or to put it less kindly, hysteria.”

68. “Hanna had Communist leanings, which I couldn’t bear, and on the other a tendency to mysticism, or to put it less kindly, hysteria.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...”

69. “Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...”

Max Frisch Quote: “Sabeth listened when I told her about my experiences, but as one listens to an old man; without interrupting, politely, without believing, without getting excited.”

70. “Sabeth listened when I told her about my experiences, but as one listens to an old man; without interrupting, politely, without believing, without getting excited.”

Max Frisch Quote: “When I woke Herbert, he sprang to his feet. What was the matter? When he saw that nothing was the matter, he started snoring again – to avoid being bored.”

71. “When I woke Herbert, he sprang to his feet. What was the matter? When he saw that nothing was the matter, he started snoring again – to avoid being bored.”

Max Frisch Quote: “Her supposition that I was melancholy because I was alone put me out of humour. I’m used to travelling alone. I live, like every real man, in my work. On the contrary, that’s the way I like it and I think myself lucky to live alone, in my view this is the only possible condition for men, I enjoy waking up and not having to say a word. Where is the woman who can understand that?”

72. “Her supposition that I was melancholy because I was alone put me out of humour. I’m used to travelling alone. I live, like every real man, in my work. On the contrary, that’s the way I like it and I think myself lucky to live alone, in my view this is the only possible condition for men, I enjoy waking up and not having to say a word. Where is the woman who can understand that?”

Max Frisch Quote: “In general, only the future counted for her, and to a slight extent the present; but she had no interest at all in past experiences, like all young people.”

73. “In general, only the future counted for her, and to a slight extent the present; but she had no interest at all in past experiences, like all young people.”

Max Frisch Quote: “The wish to walk on earth – there beneath the last firs standing in the sunshine, to smell their resin and listen to the water, which is probably roaring, to drink water.”

74. “The wish to walk on earth – there beneath the last firs standing in the sunshine, to smell their resin and listen to the water, which is probably roaring, to drink water.”

Max Frisch Quote: “How many of the people I meet are interested in whether I’m enjoying myself, in my feelings at all?”

75. “How many of the people I meet are interested in whether I’m enjoying myself, in my feelings at all?”

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