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"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."
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"To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you."
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
"Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty."
"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."
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"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give."
"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties."
"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime."
"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
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