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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.
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
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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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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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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