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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Quotes by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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In youth we learn; in age we understand. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.
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In youth we learn; in age we understand. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.
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People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction.
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People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction.
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Unattainable wishes are often “pious.” This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
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Unattainable wishes are often “pious.” This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
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It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.
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It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.
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The mediocre always feel as if they’re fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
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The mediocre always feel as if they’re fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
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Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.
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Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.
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Not reading a beautiful book again because you’ve already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
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Not reading a beautiful book again because you’ve already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
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Wir suchen die Wahrheit, finden wollen wir sie aber nur dort, wo es uns beliebt.
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Wir suchen die Wahrheit, finden wollen wir sie aber nur dort, wo es uns beliebt.
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The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.
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The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.
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