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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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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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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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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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