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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Masturbation
German
Freedom
Radicalism

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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