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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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