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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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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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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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