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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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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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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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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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