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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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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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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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