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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
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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 the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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