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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
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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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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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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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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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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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