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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Love
Falsehood
Deception
Torture
Tortures
Friendship
Resign
Lose
Ingratitude
Learned
Resignation
Loses
Burns
Lost
Deceived

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