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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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