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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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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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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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