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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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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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