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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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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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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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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.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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