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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Illusion
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Freedom requires guns.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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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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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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