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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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