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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
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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