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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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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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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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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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