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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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