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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
Desire
Matter
Coercion
Duty
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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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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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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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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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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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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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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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