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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Progress
Cannot
Always
Surpass
Exaggerate

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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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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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