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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
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Freedom
Robespierre
Pedant
Pedants
Pedantry

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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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