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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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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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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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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 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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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Freedom requires guns.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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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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