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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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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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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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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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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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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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