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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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
Hurry
Sin
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Castrate
Sinning
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Chastity
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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