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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
Germany
Emotions
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Emotion

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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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