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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
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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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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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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