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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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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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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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