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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.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Youth
Present
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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