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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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