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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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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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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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