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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
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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