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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Freedom requires guns.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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