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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Robespierre
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Pedants
Pedantry
Freedom
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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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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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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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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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