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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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