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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.
By Franz Grillparzer
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discards it with indi...
By Franz Grillparzer
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.
By Franz Grillparzer
But when all you do, great man, is to empty our pockets, we wish that you were smaller!
By Franz Grillparzer
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
By Franz Grillparzer
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
By Franz Grillparzer
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connois...
By Franz Grillparzer
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
By Franz Grillparzer
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
By Franz Grillparzer
'What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?' It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments...
By Franz Grillparzer
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
By Franz Grillparzer