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

Max Frisch

Max Frisch (1911–1991), Swiss author, architect. Stiller, in "First Notebook," I'm Not Stiller (1954, trans. 1958).

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