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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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