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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

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
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Art
Fairly
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Germany
Artistic
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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