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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.
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
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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