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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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 manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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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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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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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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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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