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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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Something
Men
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Sexism
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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