Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.
Max FrischI don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Max FrischPerhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.
Max FrischIt is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Max Frisch