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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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?
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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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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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