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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

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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
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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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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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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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