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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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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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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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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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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 someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
Franz Grillparzer
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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