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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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.
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