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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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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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