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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
Love
Keener
Eagle
Eagles
Blindness
Blind
Sight
Young

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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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