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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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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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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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