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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

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
Transience
Likeness
Shadow
Glory
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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