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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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 manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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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 main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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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