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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Transience
Likeness
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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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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
Franz Grillparzer
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Franz Grillparzer
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
Franz Grillparzer
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.
Franz Grillparzer
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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