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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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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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 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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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 spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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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