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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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