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

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
Coercion
Duty
Desire
Matter

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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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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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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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