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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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