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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.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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