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Servants honor their master by their service.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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 someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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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 cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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