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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 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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Personal Development
"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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"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
Happiness
"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
"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."
Devotion
"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."
God
"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
Impulses
"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy."
Heart
"A man endures misfortune without complaint."
Complaint
"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."
Imagination
"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
Fool
"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?"
Idea
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