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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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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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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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