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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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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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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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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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