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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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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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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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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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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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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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