Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmattwas a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophical crime novels, and macabre satire. Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten...
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A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.
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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
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A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
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Human life is beyond comprehension.
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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
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Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.