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The real genres: good and bad.

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
Genre
Criticism
Quality
Values
Real
Good
Genres

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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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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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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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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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