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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Men
Love
Measure
Passion
Woman
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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