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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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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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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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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