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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Life
Woe
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Honor
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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