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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
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Keener
Eagle
Eagles
Blindness
Blind
Sight
Young
Love

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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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A love that dies has never lived.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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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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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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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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