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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
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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