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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
Illusion
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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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 present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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