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Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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