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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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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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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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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Freedom requires guns.
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