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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
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Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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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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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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