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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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