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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
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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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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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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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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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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