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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Magnificent
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Anger
Close
Smoothly
Thought
Ignoble
Together
Equals
Love
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Examination
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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