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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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 real genres: good and bad.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Freedom requires guns.
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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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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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