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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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