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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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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 old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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