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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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 manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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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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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