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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.
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
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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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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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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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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 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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