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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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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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