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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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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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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Freedom requires guns.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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