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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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