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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Franz Grillparzer
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
Franz Grillparzer
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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?
Franz Grillparzer
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Freedom requires guns.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
Franz Grillparzer
My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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