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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
Emotions
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Emotion
Germany

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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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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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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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