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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Freedom requires guns.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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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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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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