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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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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 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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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