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Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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 early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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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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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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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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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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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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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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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