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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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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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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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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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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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