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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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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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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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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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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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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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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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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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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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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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