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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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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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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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