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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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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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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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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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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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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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