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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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
Always
Surpass
Exaggerate
Recourse
Progress
Cannot

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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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