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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Someone
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Needs
Reluctant
Necessary
Whose
Courage
Fear
Often
Proportionate
Ends
Insolence
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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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