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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
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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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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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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