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Not for nothing does it say in the Commandments 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any image' ... Every image is a sin.... When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Max Frisch

Max Frisch (1911–1991), Swiss author, critic. Originally published as Stiller, Suhrkamp (1954). Julika, in I'm Not Stiller, second notebook, p. 132, trans. by Michael Bullock, Vintage (1958).

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