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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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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
Anger
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Thought
Ignoble
Together
Equals
Love
Joined
Examination
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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