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Friedrich Durrenmatt

"People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies."

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"People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality."
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