Ödön von Horváth
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Charles De Montesquieu(Redirected from Ödön von Horvath)
Ödön (Edmund Josef) von Horváth (December 9, 1901 - June 1, 1938) was one of the most important German-language playwrights and authors of the twentieth century.
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- "Nichts gibt so sehr das Gefühl der Unendlichkeit als wie die Dummheit."
- Translation: Nothing conveys the feeling of infinity as much as stupidity does.
- Motto of Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Wood) (1931)