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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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