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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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NATASCHA KAMPUSCH A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT What was once thought can never be unthought
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one
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Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA Erlaube," fuhr Meister Abraham fort, "erlaube, mein Johannes, mit dem Just magst du mich kaum vergle...
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OLIVER HASSENCAMP Uhm", hauche ich. "Nach rechts oder links?"
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KIN LING FUCHS Nun, sieh mal, wer kann es ihnen verübeln?
BRANNON BRAGA Nun, sieh mal, wer kann es ihnen verübeln?
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Die das Leben vergänglich zieren!
Wer besitzt, der ...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Wer es zulässt, dass man ihn beleidigt, verdient es.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Wer klare Regeln hat, kann leichter klare Entscheidungen treffen.
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hebst du g...
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MAX RHODE Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the ru...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in p...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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