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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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 real genres: good and bad.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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