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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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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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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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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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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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Freedom requires guns.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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