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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Close
Smoothly
Thought
Ignoble
Together
Equals
Love
Joined
Examination
Magnificent
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Anger

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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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