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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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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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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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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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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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