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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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