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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Germany
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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