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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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