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A love that dies has never lived.
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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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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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