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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
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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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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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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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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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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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.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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