"One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations."
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"I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine."
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"I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me."
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"There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art."
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"The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery."
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"Fate gave to man the courage of endurance."
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"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'"
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"Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!"
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"You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that."
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"I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!"
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"I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes."
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"I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music."
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"He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them ."
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"I shall seize fate by the throat."
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"It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery."
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"Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup."
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"Artists are fiery; they do not weep."
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"There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind."
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"Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed."
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"Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb."
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