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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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
Radicalism
Masturbation
German
Freedom
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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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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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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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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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