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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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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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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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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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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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