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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Lightning
Flash
Sun
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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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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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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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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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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