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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

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
Moves
Greatness
Moving
Comes
Schiller
Goethe
Upward

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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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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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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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.
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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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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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