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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Emotion
Germany
Emotions
Objects

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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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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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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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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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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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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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 book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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