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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Coercion
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Desire
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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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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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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