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"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking."
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"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
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"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."
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"When we are not sure we are alive."
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"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."
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"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."
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"Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it."
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"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
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"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."
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"Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have."
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"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
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"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
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"I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone."
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"Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand."
People
"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."
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"Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking."
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"The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content."
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"The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi."
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