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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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Coercion
Duty
Desire
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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