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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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