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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
World
Transience
Likeness
Shadow
Glory
Dream

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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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