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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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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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