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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
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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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