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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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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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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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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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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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