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"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."
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"Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards."
"Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit."
"The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!"
"Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope."
"The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive."
"It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced by the charm of an apparition might have tried to wring from another ghost the tremendous secret of the claim the other world holds over a disembodied soul astray amongst the passions of this earth. The very ground on which I stood seemed to melt under my feet. And it was so simple too; but if the spirits evoked by our fears and our unrest have ever to vouch for each other's constancy before the forlorn magicians that we are, then I--I alone of us dwellers in the flesh--have shuddered in the hopeless chill of such a task."
Explore more quotes by Gustav Mahler
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."
"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."
"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."
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