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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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