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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Freedom requires guns.
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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 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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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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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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