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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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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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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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