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Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Gustav Freytag

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag

Born: July 13, 1816
Died: April 30, 1895 (aged 78)
Bio: Gustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.
Known for:
  1. Debit and Credit
  2. Die technik des dramas (1863)
  3. Die Ahnen (1872)
  4. Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit (1859)
  5. Die verlorene Handschrift (1861)

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