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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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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.
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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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