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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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 likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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