"What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit."
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"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."
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"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"
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"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
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"Love demands all, and has a right to all."
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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
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"You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes."
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"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
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"If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?"
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"Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets."
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"I love a tree more than a man."
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"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
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"We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings."
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"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose."
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"Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king"
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"How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things."
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"No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him."
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"I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me."
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"My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast."
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"Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money."
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