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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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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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