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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Franz Grillparzer

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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
Artist
Sense
Art
Certain
Fairly
Germany
Artistic
Foreign
Common

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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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 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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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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