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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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