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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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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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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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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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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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