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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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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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