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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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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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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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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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