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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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Personal Development
"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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Personal Development
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."
People
"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
Art
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Music
"Music is the silence between the notes."
Music
"Extreme complication is contrary to art."
Art
"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
Nature
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Art
"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."
Love
"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."
Feelings
"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
Music
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