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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Wisdom
Much
Something
Men
Dashing
Sexism
Princess
Honor

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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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