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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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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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