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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

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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Tailor
Poetry
Tailors
Scissors
Mend
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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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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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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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