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"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking."
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"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera."
Gay
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
World
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
Difference
"I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life."
Life
"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."
Music
"The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks."
Love
"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
Ideas
"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
Life
"Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way."
Opinion
"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking."
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"Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest."
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"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."
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"But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
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"I am alive because you want me to."
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"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."
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"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."
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"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"
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"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."
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