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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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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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Freedom requires guns.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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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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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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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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