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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
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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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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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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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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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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