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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
Franz Grillparzer
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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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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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