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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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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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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.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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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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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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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