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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Present
Never
Prosaic
Serves
Poetic
Necessity
However
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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