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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
Radicalism
Masturbation
German
Freedom
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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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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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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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Freedom requires guns.
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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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