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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

Franz Grillparzer

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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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World
Transience
Likeness
Shadow
Glory

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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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