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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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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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