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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
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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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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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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 fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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