Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 9

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• Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

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  Eye, Jewels, Perception

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• Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

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  Children, Knowledge, Men

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• Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

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  Change, Lucky, Chance

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• Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

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  Change, Gratitude, Fickle

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• In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

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  Running, Men, Alone Man

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• The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

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  Character, Crowds, Mimicry

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• Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

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  Future, Yesterday, Substance

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• You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

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  Freedom, Government, Wish

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• Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

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  Genius, Recognition, Crosses

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• Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

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  Freedom, Air, Order

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• What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

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  Hypocrisy, Hens, Meat

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• A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

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  Love, Men, May

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• It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

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  Desire, Coercion, Matter

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• Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

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  Horse, Brave, Soldier

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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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  Thinking, Animal, Intelligence

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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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  Country, Wall, Chinese

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• It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

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  Drama, Character, Degrees

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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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  Father, Men, Cities

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