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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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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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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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