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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.
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
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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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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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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