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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
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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 manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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