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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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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'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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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