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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.
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
Austria
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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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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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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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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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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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