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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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 manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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