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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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
Progress
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Always
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Exaggerate
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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