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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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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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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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