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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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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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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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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer
Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
Franz Grillparzer
