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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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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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