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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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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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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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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