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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
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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