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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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Vienna
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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 present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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