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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.
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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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