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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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