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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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 Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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