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Franz Grillparzer Inspirational Quotes (125)

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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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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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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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