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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

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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
Poet
Poetry
Combines
Child
Profundity
Spirit
Bright
Children
Philosopher
Philosophical
Pictures
Delight

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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 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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Freedom requires guns.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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