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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
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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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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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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