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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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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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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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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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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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