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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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