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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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