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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
Progress
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Always
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Exaggerate
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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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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