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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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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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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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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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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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