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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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