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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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