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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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