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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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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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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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Freedom requires guns.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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