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"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
"To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) " these three are the reasons the world's delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created."
"There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naA ve at times, she wasn't stupid."
"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion."
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional."
"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."
"As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her."
"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
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"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."
"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage."
"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."
"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."
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