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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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