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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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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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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 ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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