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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Franz Grillparzer
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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
Franz Grillparzer
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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