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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
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Vienna
Austria
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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