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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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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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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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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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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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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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