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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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