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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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Conviction
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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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 character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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