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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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