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"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
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"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
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"I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not."
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"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
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"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."
People


"There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy."
Girls


"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
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"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
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"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy."
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"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
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"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
Art


"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
Poor


"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
Mind


"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"
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