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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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