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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
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Blindness
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Subjectivity
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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 courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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