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Quotations of selected author
Franz Grillparzer
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
categories: Time and Passing
2. "Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."
source: "Libussa"
categories: Time and Passing
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
categories: Art and Culture
4. "The real genres: good and bad."
source: "Poems"
categories: Good and Evil
5. "Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink."
source: "Poems"
categories: Art and Culture
6. "Love! Hate! Is there no third?"
source: "Sappho"
categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love
7. "Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief."
source: "Poems"
8. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."
source: "Sappho"
categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love -:- Richness and Money
9. "Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Talent and Genius
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
categories: Talent and Genius
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
categories: Talent and Genius
12. "Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
categories: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals
13. "A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love."
source: "Sappho"
categories: Love -:- Woman and Man
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