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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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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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