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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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