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My greatest fear: repetition.

Max Frisch

Repetition

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Max Frisch

Man

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

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Fate

Providence

I have no words for my reality.

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Reality

Words

I live, like every real man, in my work.

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Work

Man

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

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Conscience

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

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

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Nothing

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

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

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

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Max Frisch

Difference

Language

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.