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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.
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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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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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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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