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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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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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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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