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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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