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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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