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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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