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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Germany
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Emotion
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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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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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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