• Time

  I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

  3.7 · 20 votes · 55 reads

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• Art and Culture

  If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

  4.2 · 25 votes · 92 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

  3.4 · 59 votes · 77 reads

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• Nature

  My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

  4.6 · 40 votes · 58 reads

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• Society

  My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

  4.3 · 9 votes · 103 reads

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• Art and Culture

  My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

  3.3 · 29 votes · 78 reads

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• Society

  Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into

  3.1 · 37 votes · 148 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

  4.5 · 5 votes · 112 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Talent works, genius creates.

  3.5 · 42 votes · 158 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

  4.2 · 60 votes · 129 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

  3.0 · 23 votes · 0 reads

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• Nature

  Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

  3.1 · 36 votes · 61 reads

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• Art and Culture

  To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

  4.3 · 25 votes · 132 reads

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• Art and Culture

  You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

  3.0 · 18 votes · 20 reads

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