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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

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
Life
Reached
Height
Excellence
Forever
Art
Borrow
Human
Frightening
Humans
Accomplishment
Must
Abundance

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