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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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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 love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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 is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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