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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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 main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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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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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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