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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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